Re: Qwtplot3d and Gl2ps

[Micha B. <kri...@us...>]

Monday, May 7, 2007, 10:03:27, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:

>    I dislike having 3dparty libraries within packages since Debian has the
> dependency framework that lets one package install another.

One of the policies of qwt3d was/is self-containment. I always liked
the idea of dropping in source code into my projects instantly, so the
library was designed with a single dependency (Qt) in mind. Even gl2ps
himself follows this strategy and so it became part of the qwt3d source
tree (the gl2ps license (http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/COPYING.GL2PS)
allows static linking).

> Gl2ps in QwtPlot3d is also an old version of the library.
[...]
> Has anyone fixed this in a more beautiful way?

My proposal for the moment is a patch release 0.2.6.1 (or 0.2.7),
updating the included gl2ps to the recent release (I used this rather
ad-hoc procedure during the past a few times).

Would this be helpful?

Micha  
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