On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 23:58 +0000, Matthew Brincke wrote:
> I read your other e-mail about a build error, AFAIK I have corrected it with
> the patch attached to this e-mail to be applied in addition to the both parts.
Hi,
your message is not properly threaded, I wasn't sure you talk to me
until I read it to the very bottom. Also because other users claimed
build errors in various environments recently.
> - zyx maintains a product based on PoDoFo himself so I suspect why he acts
> like this
Heh. Should I take this personally? I do not mind myself, as the
litePDF maintainer, I do not expect any massive changes being needed in
the litePDF project, because its main aim is drawing. I wrote both
reasons in the initial email. I can repeat them here again, in a more
verbose way, if it'll help:
1) API changes *in any* project is a pita, especially when the API
change doesn't bring anything new, when it's just a cleanup of function
names and similar "boring" changes.
2) I am *not* a maintainer of PoDoFo. The only reason why I have commit
rights to this project is that I did upstream my changes in the PoDoFo
drawing API. It was an API change and it allowed PoDoFo to have more
generic drawing API, following PDF specification closely. I believe
that drawing API change was a pita for exiting users too, but again, it
was a good change and brought many good things for the drawing. Thus,
as I am *not* the maintainer, it's not my duty to decide whether any
API change can be done or not.
Honestly, I do not know why I take care of patches to PoDoFo from this
list for the past several years. I just want to return back something
to the community of PoDoFo, the same reason why I did upstream my
drawing API changes. To let people benefit from the Open Source
project.
Thus no, this is not a selfish decision from my side. It's only a
historical experience as a developer and a user of several libraries.
Bye,
zyx
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