Re: Recent Pango changes

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad esfahbod gmail com>]

On 15-04-18 07:09 AM, John Emmas wrote:
> On 18/04/2015 12:12, John Emmas wrote:
> > I just updated from git master and noticed some big changes which seemed
> > unusual.  I just wanted to check if these are correct or if something's gone
> > awry with my update...
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I'm only querying these because they seem to be rather drastic changes...  ;-)
>
> After some further digging I came across this entry in Bugzilla:-
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733137
>
> It looks as if the previous (dynamically loadable) modules have been abandoned
> now and everything gets built into pango statically.  As a result (presumably)
> there's no need for the previous lib directory, or sysconf directory, or the
> config files (pango.aliases etc?)
>
> Is that a fair summary of the new situation?  (I must admit, it seems like a
> good improvement !!)

Correct.  I forgot to announce the change on the mailing list, but tada:
config files, dynamically loaded modules, modules in general, pango.modules
file, config directories, all gone...

Pango is a single-file relocatable library now.  Enjoy!

behdad