A Dilluns 21 Abril 2008, Carl Worth va escriure: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:03:42 +0200, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > constant to 'char*' SplashOutputDev.cc:1042: warning: deprecated > > > conversion from string constant to 'char*' SplashOutputDev.cc:1053: > > > warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' ... > > > > poppler code is full of those "char *" instead of "const char *" usage, > > we are not patching them because it will make merging with xpdf code > > harder. That's why we use -Wno-write-strings by default to not see those > > warnings. > > I don't follow. > > If there's a code improvement here, is there any reason not to push > this up to the xpdf code as well?
And how do you suggest us to do this? If we could push things into xpdf, poppler would not exist at all. > And is "merge with xpdf" intended to be a regular activity for the > foreseeable future? Yes, each time the xpdf author decides to release a new xpdf version we plan to merge the changes. > Is there any effort to get xpdf and poppler > unforked, (that is, to make xpdf depend on poppler)? xpdf author was never interested in collaboration, i don't see what can have changed over time. Albert > > -Carl _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
