On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 15:38, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > Indeed. Gnumeric provides an excellent illustration as to why we should > commit to the libpng3 transition for GNOME1, or roll back to libpng2.
Switching to png3 is not an option for GNOME 1. We would be breaking binary compatibility. > That rebuild is peanuts compared to the GNOME1 -> GNOME2 transition. We're > in for the penny with the png2 -> png3 transition, we'd better be in for the > pound as well. Once png2 -> png3 is finished, we'll have the time to > properly reflect on how this kind of transition can be handled with less > intermittent breakage in the future. I think what we learned from this whole debacle is that we should have handled the png issue the same way Red Hat did; by hacking gtk2 to dlopen png without RLTD_GLOBAL.
