On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:53:54AM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > It's not an X-consortium standard, or even a de-facto standard. > If you have an app that links against Xv, it won't even start > unless you have the libraries on your machine. That would prohibit > using that app with anything other than an XFree86 4.x installation. > > Say you had an app that wanted to use Xv if available, and do > its own software scaling/color conversion otherwise so it would > work on XiG's server or with 3.3.x. If you called XvQueryExtension > to find if the extension was available your app will not run. > Debian can include a shared library if they want, but applications > wanting to optionally use Xv would be wise to compile with the static > version. Good enough reasoning for me. I've actually been arguing against shipping a shared version in Debian's packages until the XFree86 build process does so, but some of my users are harassing me to do otherwise. Thanks for the explanation, Mark. -- G. Branden Robinson | You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux | Or you don't live long. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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