Re: cairo dep

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 22 juillet 2008, à 19:40 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> 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.

Sure. But we've been hit pretty hard by such promises in the past, so we
generally ignore them. Except that in this case, we've had only good
things with cairo, hence my request for exception :-)

Vincent

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