Re: lablgtk, camlimages, advi, cameleon and libpng.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:28:32PM +0100, Maxence Guesdon wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:17:52 +0100
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Well, we encountered a build problem in advi, which seems to be related
> > to cameleon's linkage of libpng10 and lablgtk.
> > 
> > I don't remember what the situation is exactly, but i remember that
> > libpng10 was to be used with lablgtk1, and libpng12 was to be used with
> > lablgtk2 and that cameleon is the only remaining app that depends on
> > lablgtk2.
> 
> Heu, cameleon (the main trunk) depends on lablgtk1, not lablgtk2.

Yeah, sure, was a typo.

> > I thus propose the following plan, and an alternative plan below it :
> > 
> > Plan A:
> > 
> >   - we rename lablgtk2 to lablgtk, and it becomes our default lablgtk.
> >   - lablgtk2 is linked with libpng12.
> >   - camlimage is built with it.
> >   - we rename current lablgtk as lablgtk1 for compatibility reasons.
> >   - cameleon is either fixed to build with lablgtk2.
> > 
> > Plan B:
> > 
> >   - we upload a camlimage2 linked with libpng12 and using lablgtk2.
> >   - cameleon is linked with camlimage1 and lablgtk1 and libpng10.
> >   - advi is linked with camlimage2.
> > 
> > What do you think of it ? Especially, i would like comments from the
> > cameleon people, but it has been a long time since the lablgtk2
> > migration was started, so ...
> 
> And it is not done, yet. It is started in a separated branch, named ...
> "lablgtk2" :-)

and, how is the progress on it, and is there still much work to be done ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther