On May 5, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: >>> IMO, using yet another external library is not worth the inevitable >>> support headache just to get some pretty fonts. > > It is getting quite frustrating to keep coding for the lowest common > denominator, and I'm sure there are many win32 / UNIX boxes out there > which have very few of our dependant libraries installed by default.
Well, the other end of that stick is making gEDA a Linux-only (and "recent" Linux at that) product. I'd not be in favor of that at all. There's got to be a happy medium in there somewhere. >> Well, I'm with you there, at least in principle. I'm looking at >> probably a day or two of work just to try the cairo code, starting >> with getting git built (whose idea was that again?!), and it seems >> cairo has its own nice little tree of dependencies. I'm stuck on >> pixman at the moment. > > What platform is this - does it have any way you could get a > pre-compiled version? Solaris10 on UltraSPARC, and MacOS X on PPC. I prefer to build from unmodified sources...I eschew "package management" systems because they put stuff in weird places and are almost never current. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user