Hi Jürgen; --- On Thu, 11/10/11, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> my main concern here is why you haven't updated the tar > file with a newer version and used the same mechanism > as for all other 3rd party libs. > There has never been any tarball for this. Maybe we should move it to a third party lib but I thought the idea was to move those in instead. > > ok, drop counterproductive but i still don't understand why > you have > checked in it at all. The update if necessary could have > been done at a > later time as well. > Time is something relative. I am very new to all this and playing with this stuff that doesn't interfere with the critical path served me to learn SVN and start understanding the build system. I've done other much simpler changes that are of huge importance but this agg thing taught me a lot. Doing it at a later time would certainly not be acceptable: we don't want to move stuff like this the week before a release! ... > why not analyzing if possible to use it? As it is optional > (default=disabled) anyway it would be much easier. > I could have it accept 2.5 but remember: - This is not used by anything in the tree. - We have the compatible version 2.4 already. > > relatively easy. > you can always ask if others can help. I can think also > about much more interesting stuff but some things have > to done at the moment ;-) > I will probably get to see what can be improved in the configure script but for now let's just keep doing what matters :-P. Pedro.
