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Matt Turner posted on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:39:04 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> I'm a little unclear about -lpng vs -lpng15. ssuominen tells me on IRC |
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> that probably 90% of packages linking with libpng will fail with 1.5. |
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> These 90% will link with -lpng until a version that supports 1.5 is |
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> released? The remaining 10% will go ahead and link with -lpng15? What |
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> happens when 1.6 is released and breaks compatibility again? |
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That last is my first thought as well. |
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If we go ahead and patch a whole bunch of stuff to -lpng15, we're locking |
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ourselves in to screwing with them for 1.6 and beyond, as well. It seems |
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to me that if we're going to patch, patch the real problem, so -lpng |
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continues to work, and then we'll only be forced to fix what breaks with |
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1.6 when it comes out, not everything we broke by locking it to 1.5 |
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specifically, as well. |
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But I'm not the one doing the patching, so... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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