On Tuesday, 20 Feb 2001, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:30:56 +0000
> From: Austin Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I think the easiest thing is to have the version in CVS (and gimp
> snapshots) to include the code for the shared library, and an
> integrated build system. I'd even go so far to say that the plugin
> should be statically linked against the library, to avoid version
> skew if the user installs a different version of the shlib later.
>
> This sounds like you're suggesting that we split out libgimpprint and
> the clients into separate packages.
Yes.
> This would total four (libgimpprint and associated tests, the
> plugin, the CUPS driver, and the Ghostscript driver), plus possibly
> other packages for things like Debian and RPM packaging.
Well, maybe just 3:
libgimpprint
print plugin (both of these manually imported to gimp cvs)
CPUS + Ghostscript drivers
Does the Debian maintainer have any comments how he/she would like to
see it packaged?
> I presume you'd want to pick up libgimpprint and the plugin, without
> the CUPS and Ghostscript drivers.
Yup.
> We're working library version skew issues (Roger has architected and
> done an initial implementation), although there is something to be
> said for building it statically within the Gimp context.
Well, one less shared library for users to forget to install properly,
so yes :)
Austin
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