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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 2 02:33:15 -0800 2006 ------- tml: since you are already able to create a distribution of cairo on ftp.gtk.org, why not then provide also, on ftp.gtk.org, a slimmed (& static?) version of cairo, that only includes the necessary parts (win32) for windows? Then you could just describe that URL in the configure scripts, if cairo is not found on windows platform. I think that including full sources of libraries that are part of basic distributions in e.g Linux dists, is just asking for trouble. Linux dists like to keep up-to-date with libraries, and having ancient versions lingering in OOo causes OOo code to become a jungle of #IFDEFs (necessary for cross-platform compatibility). It's much better to keep also the win32 version up-to-date elsewhere and ask people to download that. The configure scripts can always raise the minimum version, if incompatibilities are found. I have seen too many times how difficult and long process it is to get a library version updated on OOo CVS. It's not worth it. Besides, when there is a need for OOo specific library patches, they should be upstreamed (it at all possible), not left lingering in OOo CVS. Also Mac OS X has established ways (fink, darwinports) of getting library dependencies, so there is no need to have cairo sources in OOo CVS, for that platform either. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
