Re: [Vxl-users] [Vxl-maintainers] dashboard error, wrong libpng

[Gehua Y. <yan...@gm...>]

I just found out Chuck Atkins has made the necessary fix in vil1.
Dashboard shall be green again in one or two days.

Gehua.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Gehua Yang <yan...@gm...> wrote:
> I just made a commit after updating libpng to 1.5.10.  It was not too
> surprising that vil1 broke after that.  As the result, dashboard will
> be red for a few days until I can find out how to fix it.  Assistance
> will be welcomed and appreciated!  :-)
>
> Regards,
> Gehua.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Gehua Yang <yan...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It is still on my to-do list to update the v3p/libpng to the latest
>> release. I think I can get to it in a week or two.  I hope the update
>> will be straight-forward, as I realize people in Linux world must have
>> been working with external libpng and have success with it.
>>
>> I guess the trend is not too remove vil1 immediately.  If it is
>> decided this way,  I will try to bring vil1 up to date as well.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gehua.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Joseph Mundy <mu...@le...> wrote:
>>> Maybe one solution is to move vil1 to oxl, where it is heavily used and get
>>> rid of it elsewhere. I guess we would create vgui_ox to keep the vil1 vgui
>>> support for oxl.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Chuck Atkins [mailto:chu...@ki...]
>>> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 9:22 AM
>>> To: Joseph Mundy
>>> Cc: Amitha Perera; Gehua Yang; vxl...@li...;
>>> Vxl-maintainers; Sean McBride; Matthew Woehlke
>>>
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Vxl-maintainers] [Vxl-users] dashboard error, wrong libpng
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I agree with retiring vil1 as well, however doing so looks to be a much more
>>> involved purge than removing vidl1 was (which I did just a few months ago).
>>>
>>> On the reason the topic started in the first place, I just pushed a patch to
>>> address the libpng15 problem in r34802.  The commit fixed the problem in
>>> vil1 as well really out of convenience but I still think we ought to work
>>> towards excising it.  We've been using the patch on an internal copy of VXL
>>> for a while now as several of our developers run on "bleeding edge" Linux
>>> distributions (ArchLinux, Gentoo, Fedora, etc.) so this has been affecting
>>> many of us here at KW for some time.  I just haven't gotten around to
>>> pushing it upstream until now.
>>>
>>>
>>> - Chuck
>>>
>>> -- "Mathematicians are tools for turning coffee grounds into formulas.",
>>> Paul Erdos
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Joseph Mundy <mu...@le...> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would be willing to "cleanse" vil1 from vgui. However, that will likely
>>> break the oxl repository in many places. Should all the vil1/vgui stuff in
>>> oxl be removed as well?
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Amitha Perera [mailto:am...@th...]
>>> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 8:00 AM
>>> To: Gehua Yang
>>> Cc: vxl...@li...; Vxl-maintainers; Sean McBride
>>> Subject: Re: [Vxl-maintainers] [Vxl-users] dashboard error, wrong libpng
>>>
>>> On 3/28/2012 3:12 PM, Gehua Yang wrote:
>>>> vil1 seems to be affected as well.  Taking this chance,  I wonder how
>>>> many people are still using vil1.  If few people do, I may consider
>>>> not to upgrade vil1.
>>>
>>> My own view is that vil1 is well past its expiration date.   However,
>>> there are probably (unused) compatibility functions in places like vgui
>>> that would need to be cleaned up if vil1 is removed.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I like the idea of leaving in a purposefully "broken" vil1:
>>> either it should be updated or removed.
>>>
>>> Amitha.
>>>
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