On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:05:44 +0300 Tom Hacohen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On the dependencies and distros, although Fedora does ship with the
> > new version, some distros do not as few software *depends* on that
> > lib. Although gtk/pango uses it, they have their own copy statically
> > linked and do not depend on that lib.
> >
> 
> I'm aware that not everyone ship latest FriBiDi, though I can confirm
> Arch and Ubuntu do. Anyhow, this FriBiDi version is an year and a
> half old, the distros had enough time to upgrade. Furthermore,
> FriBiDi 0.19.2 includes a lot more cool stuff I intend on using and
> therefore drop 0.10.x support completely. I think that Arabic users
> that want e17 with Arabic support will have to either compile FriBiDi
> themselves, or put some pressure on their distros maintainers.
> Furthermore, IIRC FriBiDi's project leader recommends on using 0.19.2
> and dropping the old version, so again, there's really no reason why
> to stay behind on this one, I don't even think conditional compiling
> is in order here, it should just get removed.

It's good to see this sort of thought and restraint going into
dependency versions.  Too often I have seen people forcing the use
latest bleeding edge, only an hour old, versions; where the coders
keyboard is still warm from the last debugging session.

Well done.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.

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