On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Tom Hacohen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It is good to see the dead code removed. > > > Indeed. I hate dead code laying around. > >> >> On the dependencies and distros, although Fedora does ship with the >> new version, some distros do not as few software *depends* on that >> lib. Although gtk/pango uses it, they have their own copy statically >> linked and do not depend on that lib. > > I'm aware that not everyone ship latest FriBiDi, though I can confirm Arch > and Ubuntu do. Anyhow, this FriBiDi version is an year and a half old, > the distros had enough time to upgrade. Furthermore, FriBiDi 0.19.2 > includes a lot more cool stuff I intend on using and therefore drop 0.10.x > support completely. I think that Arabic users that want e17 with Arabic > support will have to either compile FriBiDi themselves, or put some pressure > on their distros maintainers. Furthermore, IIRC FriBiDi's project leader > recommends on using 0.19.2 and dropping the old version, so again, > there's really no reason why to stay behind on this one, I don't even think > conditional compiling is in order here, it should just get removed.
Sure, but Ubuntu just upgraded because I did it :-) And yeah, I talked to Behdad and he said most distros just not upgrade because nobody asked. AFAIR just Mplayer and some other not-so-often-used depend on libfribidi, others like Gtk/Pango have copies that are already upgraded. BTW, at the time I talked to Behdad I asked him to include us in their users, and there it is: http://fribidi.org/users.html "EFL" BR, -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: [email protected] Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
