On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:16:57PM -0600, James Buren <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> I'm working on upgrading seamonkey to 2.0. While working on it, it
> complains that our libpng does not have APNG support. I dug deeper and
> found this is a feature provided by a patch to libpng for "animation
> support".

Same here - any reason that patch is not in upstream?

> Arch uses it by default to their libpng. Do you think its worth
> patching our libpng so this can be used in a shared library rather than
> using the static library provided with the sources of seamonkey?

This is a separate issue, right? The question here is who will maintain
the patch. The problem is that once you make it a shared library, you
have to care about API changes, upstream provides a static lib only in
several cases to be able to ignore this problem, since obviously static
libs doesn't have any SO numbers.

So just building it as a shared lib named ".so.0" does not make too much
sense, while deciding when to bump the number isn't a trivial task. Are
you aware of this?

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