Re: Integration of the DFB backend into current GTK+ 2.8.17 sources
Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
>> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:58:00PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>>
>>> Sven Luther wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:16:53PM +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 5/26/06, Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Josselin Mouette wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I support this patch requires newer directfb and cairo packages, are
>>>>>>> these packages available somewhere?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DirectFB 0.9.24 is already packaged as binary udeb, reular deb and
>>>>>> development dev packaged.
>>>>>> Right now, cairo is the real problem: currently its official
>>>>>> maintainer,
>>>>>> dave beckett is busy and i doubt he'll be able to provide us a binary
>>>>>> deb compiled against DFB 0.9.24.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this case fit for a binnmu for cairo? does it only need to be built
>>>>> against the new DFB, or does it need some updates?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have not looked, but my guess is that it needs some modifications
>>>> to produce
>>>> the DFB-friendly packages. Unless cairo can be built with the dfb
>>>> support and
>>>> still work for the other targets ?
>>>
>>> i just mailed dave beckett, maintainer of libcairo2, to ask him if he
>>> can provide us a DFB version of this libray.
>>
>>
>> Current version of libcairo2 in unstable is 1.0.4, but the gtk-dfb
>> pahge you
>> mentioned says :
>>
>> Next, get cairo >= 1.1.6 from and build it with the DFB backend
>> enabled:
>>
>> And indeed, i didn't find any DFB related stuff in the current cairo
>> version
>> in unstable.
>
> You're right: GTK 2.8.17 requires only cairo >= 0.9.2, but DFB backend
> became officially part of cairo starting from version 1.1.2 (first
> official release of 1.1.x series).
Yes it's in the official (development) releases 1.1.x but remains
unsupported/experimental. The next 1.2.0 stable release will include it,
but it will remain unsupported; it might not even be updated for recent
Cairo git changes.
> The only reasonable option i see to updating official cairo to >= 1.1.2
> in unstable is maintaining custom 1.1.6 source package with DFB backed
> enabled, until cairo 1.1.x enters unstable.
I'm away from my debian boxes for a few more days but I have been intending
to package cairo 1.1.x in debian's experimental with the cairo udeb,
preparing for the long-delayed cairo 1.2.0.
Dave
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