On 07/31/2013 02:38 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Armin K. wrote:
>> On 07/31/2013 12:34 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> I upgraded to poppler-0.24, earlier today and think it may have been a
>>> mistake.  I tried to build cups-filters with it and if fails.  Reverting
>>> to poppler 0.22.5 works fine.
>>>
>>> On the other hand evince will need poppler 0.24
>>>
>>> http://osdir.com/ml/commits.gnome/2013-07/msg07555.html
>>>
>>> That's dated today.
> 
>> glib and qt4 interfaces don't change. It's just libpoppler.so, which
>> gets ABI break with every release (even stable, doh). I suspect Inkscape
>> is broken, too. I've fixed LibreOffice already.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I've submitted a bug for cups-filters. Just wait day or two.
> 
> I saw the patch for LO.
> 
> OK, we can wait.  I can understand the deprecated-declarations and even 
> the warnings about type long long.  Thise can be turned off easily 
> enough.  The problem with poppler breaking the ABI without going through 
> a period of being deprecated is, at a minimum, disappointing.
> 
>    -- Bruce
> 
> 

I've asked once on their irc channel why poppler interface breaks so
often, and the dev said that libpoppler.so is a private library and
isn't declared stable. On the other hand, -glib and -qt4 are declared
stable (not sure about -cpp).

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