Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 555 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches
Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:37PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:18, Warren Turkal wrote:
>> > On Monday 22 September 2003 05:54 am, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> > > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 04:11, Warren Turkal wrote:
>> > > In the meantime, David Dawes convinced me that this isn't very useful
>> > > for the traditional X libraries because pkg-config support for them
>> > > can't be relied upon anyway.
>> >
>> > The only reason it cannot be relied upon is because XFree doesn't ship
>> > the .pc files required to take advantage of it. Pkg-config requires the
>> > .pc files to
>> > be installed to use it. This patch fills that gap. Current autoconf
>> > tests are based on heuristics instead of actual data supplied by these
>> > .pc files.
>>
>> As David pointed out, shipping them now won't magically make them appear
>> in all X11 installtions past and present, so they can't be relied upon.
>
> Warren, I'm going to migrate this pkg-config work over to people/wt for
> you.
>
> I don't feel I have a complete understanding of the political *and*
> technical ramifications of this change yet, and until I do I don't want
> to risk it causing problems for the 4.3.0-1 deployment.
>
Still do get rid of the old 017 since it is not needed anymore.
Thanks,
--
Warren Turkal
President, GOLUM, Inc.
http://www.golum.org
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