Re: xv compilation

[Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:34:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> xv is also listed at apt-get.org.

Yeah, that's where I found the original source archive of 3.10a-26 that I
have.

> Marc, maybe you could list your xv w/ apt-get.org...

Uh, no.  I'm not about to get into *supporting* the thing.  Someone wants to
collect all the patches I'm using (mousewheel support in xv is very nice), I'm
happy to share what I have and where I got them, but that's all:

xv (3.10a-30) unstable; urgency=low

  * applied smooth_24_speedy patch from
    http://www2.primushost.com/~dcoffin/powershot/
    (not sure if I'm happy with this, may revert it)

 -- Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>  Mon, 01 Jun 2003 16:39:00 -0700

xv (3.10a-29) unstable; urgency=low

  * fixed error message truncation caused by Debian patch #07
    The Deb patch enforces string lengths on error messages, which
    xv was ignoring.  Since it reloaded the istr[] array each time,
    the bug was invisible as long as there was no attempt to use
    consecutive strings.

 -- Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>  Mon, 06 Apr 2003 22:35:00 -0800
    
xv (3.10a-28) unstable; urgency=low

  * added PhotoCD patch from http://www.dclunie.com/xv-pcd.html
    Note: had to hack patch to cooperate with PNG patch, it will
    no longer apply standalone...
  * added formatstr patch from
    http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/
  * added directory patch from
    http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/
  * added shortsleep patch from
    http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/
  * added menubutton patch from
    http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/
    (makes insert open drop-downs)
  * rearranged patch directory slightly
 
 -- Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>  Mon, 06 Apr 2003 13:53:00 -0800

xv (3.10a-27) unstable; urgency=low

  * Rebuilt to get rid of xlib6g dependency
  * fixed most of ./patches-upstream, which were not applying
  * added tiff1200.patch
  * added bmp32.patch
  * added pdf.patch
  * added croppad.patch
  * added gif.patch
  * added aspect-resize.patch from http://shh.thathost.com/patches/
  * added wheelmouse.patch from
    http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/
  * added dirwkey.patch from
    http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/
  * added printkey.patch from
    http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/

 -- Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>  Mon, 09 Feb 2003 17:58:22 -0800

Plus there's the license to consider.  "Thou shalt not distribute modified
binaries" is a pretty plain warning against sharing it and is in fact why
Debian dropped it in the first place.

The fact that I think most of the easily available alternatives suck rocks
is not sufficient reason.

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