On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:53 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > > IMO, using yet another external library is not worth the inevitable > > support headache just to get some pretty fonts.
It is getting quite frustrating to keep coding for the lowest common denominator, and I'm sure there are many win32 / UNIX boxes out there which have very few of our dependant libraries installed by default. These projects are taking the very sensible step of factoring common functionality into re-usable libraries, rather than (say), GTK or cairo re-inventing / copy-pasting every piece of functionality they require, and since a GUI environment is a complex affair, this means a lot of libraries. If we're talking Linux, I have less sympathy since there are very often easier ways to install distro pre-built versions. > Well, I'm with you there, at least in principle. I'm looking at > probably a day or two of work just to try the cairo code, starting > with getting git built (whose idea was that again?!), and it seems > cairo has its own nice little tree of dependencies. I'm stuck on > pixman at the moment. What platform is this - does it have any way you could get a pre-compiled version? If we were to be more like Mozilla / various CAD packages, our controlled sources would include full, perhaps modified copies of such libraries, leaving external dependencies just a C library and perhaps libX11. I suspect distributions would not thank us for this, nor those who actually have copies of the relevant libraries on their boxes. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
