On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:23:03PM -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> > I was wondering what people think of the idea of dropping imlib
>> > support in dia altogether in favour of gdk-pixbuf. The next version
>> > of
>>
>> I think we should keep it for now, since a lot of people will have imlib
>> compiled but not gdk-pixbuf... on the other hand, it's better to get the
>> changes out early. Code-wise, it doesn't matter much.
>
>
> #ifdef USE_IMLIB
> do_it_the_old_broken_way ();
> #else
> do_it_the_new_way_with_pixbuf ();
> #endif
>
>
> And of course use autoconf; if pixbuf is found, don't use imlib.
>
> (Of course I have a big mouth and I'm not writing any code, but
> this looks to me like the correct way to make progressive
> changes, specially when backwards compatibility is concerned.)
Way ahead of you:) That's the way it is now. The question is when we
should remove imlib support altogether.
-Lars
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