Denis Auroux

I don't have a great sense of how many differences there are between the github repository and that on sourceforge. I think Daniel German (dmgerman on github) is or at least was the maintainer of the github repository, and that the main divergence has been including various cleaning up / infrastructure upgrade patches of the sort you proposed that I've been too lazy and unresponsive to deal with. My impression is that the actual code is fairly similar, but I don't know whether all of my bugfixes...

Done (on the sourceforge.net repository, which is the only one I'm involved with, and with a slightly different error message). Denis

Abort autogen.sh when pkg-config is absent (cf bug #5).

Hi James, All right... but still, I think your distribution's packaging is somewhat broken. For example, in Fedora, the gtk2-devel package containing the header files for compiling GTK2 applications requires as dependencies all the other packages needed to compile GTK2 applications, including pkgconfig. Same in Ubuntu. My impression is that most major distributions do this, making it much easier to develop software on a system that was initially set up purely as a desktop, so the problem you encountered...

This does make some sense, but given that autogen.sh already aborts anyway because things can't complete further, the only benefit is a slightly clearer error message. I am not sure how helpful that will be, though, or how often people run into this problem these days. Denis

I'm increasingly thinking that the simplest solution would be to change the text tool cursor to something else (a pointer with a little 'T' next to it?) that doesn't look like a text I-beam, so as to not suggest an alignment that doesn't exist... (Ideally we'd have better-looking and more appropriately sized cursors altogether, but the GTK2 function we use for handling cursors is rather limited, and I don't have the energy to devote to this...) Denis

Another implicit function declaration/header inclusion fix

Extremely strange. I had actually already added those into src/xo-image.c on December 14 2021 in my working directory, but forgot to commit the changes to the git repo. Fixed, and sorry.