On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:28:51PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Hi all, Hello. > This is just a note for anyone who's looking for a project. I was just > trying to compile some software, and it bombed out because I didn't have the > right ClanLib version installed. I looked into the matter a little, and > found a nearly two-year-old bug (#188449) asking for the library to be > updated to the latest version. > > For people not familiar with it, ClanLib is a moderately popular high-level > game programming library used by a number of different games. It has had a > tendency to break API compatibility in the past, and it appears that the > latest release is binary and source incompatible, so a lot of recent software > is not compilable on Debian at all. Because the incompatibility is two-way, > anyone who packages this will have to make allowances for installing both > versions at once. Unofficial packages are available (see the bug), but will > have to be reviewed for policy compliance and so on. ClanLib0.7 is already uploaded to experimental branch. It waits for ftp-master approval for almost two months now. regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:fenio@debian.org | pgp:0x13fefc40 | irc:fEnIo : :' : 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Polska `. `' phone:+48602383548 | proud Debian maintainer and user `- http://skawina.eu.org | jid:fenio@jabber.org | rlu:172001
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