Alan Coopersmith writes: > "pixman is a library that provides low-level pixel manipulation > features such as image compositing and trapezoid rasterization."
Nature abhors an unrasterized trapezoid. ;-} > This ensures that binary incompatible versions can be installed > in parallel. See http://www106.pair.com/rhp/parallel.html for > more information That doesn't work as a precedent for Solaris (and probably not for any other OS with dynamic linking). The problem is that it runs right into the well-known single application address space problems. An application can easily end up with a melange of library versions colliding with each other through no fault of its own, and this scheme just enables that failure mode. I hope we're not really planning to apply it here. > We don't expect most user applications to consume this library - the > expected consumers are the Xorg graphics drivers and the Cairo drawing > libraries, so Volatile stability does not appear to pose a hardship > to a significant number of consumers. That seems like the good part. ;-} > /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 Volatile Wouldn't we ordinarily call this something like "libpixman.so.1"? (It looks like this is an Ubuntuism, and other systems have it installed differently ... *sigh*.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
