Re: Bug#252104: xpdf: Please provide a -dev package
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 02.05.05 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
>> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> > Next step would be to contact the pdftex-people, what they think
>> > about that, right?
>>
>> There's a mail by me and some answers on the pdftex mailinglist, a
>> couple of weeks ago.
>>
> It does not sound very encouraging. poppler provides a static
> libxpdf.a too. Perhaps we could try to adapt teTeX to use that lib.
> Yes this is a lot of work and we have to reapply it after every teTeX
> release as I don't believe it will be accepted in upstream.
> I had only a short look at the build system and there are more than 2
> screws to turn.
I don't think switching from a static build with our own code to a
static build with their code would help us so much. It's certainly
better, but I think in the long run we need a libxpdf, or libpoppler
useable for PDF-parsing software like pdfTeX.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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