On 25 September 2012 09:47, Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote: > Even though pixman is used by core linux packages it is still a young > project. On older distros (RHEL-5 for example) it isn't included and > must be compiled manually.
For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of the compute cluster machines here are RHEL5 and it would be pretty awkward to deal with manually building a dependent library.) So they're a new library -- how good are they at API/ABI stability? I also note that http://pixman.org/ says "There is currently no documentation besides the source code itself", which makes me really really wary of using it. -- PMM
