El jue, 10-09-2009 a las 16:56 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva escribió: > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 11:06 +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote: > > Poppler 0.12 is the new stable release. Although it doesn't add any new > > API and evince builds with earlier versions, I suggest to bump the > > minimum version because this release includes a lot of important > > rendering and performance improvements, specially in the cairo backend: > > blend modes, linear/radial patterns, tiling patterns performance, ... > > I don't see much point in requiring a newer version for performance > reasons. well, it's not only because of performance reasons, I also said there are important rendering issues fixed in this release. Performance issues are usually not so important when the improvement has a low impact, but in this case we are talking about several minutes to render just one page to less than a second (see bug in [1]). > This doesn't really help people who are usually tracking newer > versions, and causes trouble to people who are trying to backport newer > versions of specific applications to older distributions. > > You can always add comments to README or whatever suggesting an upgrade, > though =) This usually doesn't work, often distros don't package new versions until they are required by any other package. When that happens, users of such distros don't test the new version and report the same bugs that were already fixed. > See you, > -- Carlos Garcia Campos PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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