* Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>, 2010-06-06, 14:21:
Poppler people are simply completely ignorant wrt to breaking API. If you look into the amount of different patches we had to create for poppler 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 0.10, 0.12 and so on, I am sure this will continue.SO actually I considered to switch back to the embedded xpdf code for Debian texlive packages, just to get rid of that stupid problems: "new poppler hits unstable, changes API at random, so texlive FTBFS"
Worse still, poppler also break ABI without bumping SONAME[1].The problem is that interfaces used by software like texlive, cups, inkscape or pdf2djvu are considered private by poppler developers[2].
I am not sure if basing anything new on poppler is actually a good idea.
No, it's not; poppler/xpdf codebase is just *horrible*. [1] http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/poppler/0.12.4-1/01_revert_abi_change.patch [2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7054 -- Jakub Wilk
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