Re: cairo dep

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Le mardi 22 juillet 2008, à 16:22 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Expect next Pango stable to depend on cairo 1.8, which we'll get out in
>> September, just in time for GNOME 2.24.0.  Cairo 1.8 also has a new
>> dependency, on pixman.  The pixman code used to live inside cairo, but
>> is a new dependency now.
>>
>> I'll make a Pango devel release depending on cairo 1.7.x as soon as we
>> get such a cairo snapshot out.  (This weekish)
>
> Good, thanks for letting us know. One issue, though, is that we
> generally use only stable external dependencies releases -- it makes
> things much easier in general.
>
> We can probably make an exception for cairo, based on past experience
> (which was quite good :-)). Opinions?

If you read Behdads mail carefully, he promised to get the new stable
cairo out in time for 2.24.