Hello,


Monday, September 13, 2004, 7:52:20 PM, you wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
>> I understand that the PDF extension does not work with the latest version of
>> libpdf, however to my knowledge it works fine with the 5.X series of the
>> library, which is still quite popular.

It compiles fine with PDFlib 5.x but it does not use the new PDFlib 5
features, so it works fine with PDFlib 3/4 only, however you can
compile it with PDFlib 5 as long as you use only the PDFlib 4 API's.

>> It seems to me that removing a mostly working and a reasonably popular
>> extension from a stable tree is not a good idea, especially this late in the
>> release cycle.
>>
>> I think this decisions needs reconsidered or at the very least discussed
>> further.

> There is also the issue that the new pdflib license appears to be rather
> evil.  So maybe we should stick with the older version of the library.

The new PDFlib-Lite license appeared with PDFlib 5.

> -Rasmus


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