Re: Pango questions in LSB context

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 13:54 -0700, Banginwar, Rajesh wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Here some new questions that came up during LSB inclusion
> process for all the Pango libraries:
> 
> - All of libpangox-1.0 library is deprecated. LSB will not include this.
> Is that Ok? Any comments?

Please do not include it. It is basically non-functional at this time,
and is included only to preserve ABI compat with apps that link to
it but don't actually use it.

> - Many of the interfaces in pango* libraries are ifdefed by
> PANGO_ENABLE_ENGINE and PANGO_ENABLE_BACKEND macros. From what I could
> find, these interfaces are low level and used rarely by the
> applications. Should these be in LSB? Do applications require these
> interfaces? Are they stable (any planned ABI changes)? 

These interfaces shouldn't be included in the LSB ... the #ifdef's
reflect a reduced level of stability and indicate that the interfaces
are not for application use: they are most of interest to someone
writing an add-on script plugin, and such plugins aren't guaranteed
to work between 1.8 and 1.10 or similar, only within a single 
1.8.x series.

Regards,
						Owen