Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, Chris Cheney asks So gnome doesn't use imlib (in Debian at least it seems to), or did I somehow miss why it appears RedHat only has one version of imlib, which is the version compiled against libpng12? Red Hat hacked gdk-imlib so that libraries loaded as "modules" (like png) do N

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-25 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:15:25AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le ven 25/04/2003 à 04:46, Chris Cheney a écrit : > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Wrong. It was Red Hat who *instigated* the change in library names > > > upstream to allow the devel packa

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 25/04/2003 à 04:46, Chris Cheney a écrit : > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Wrong. It was Red Hat who *instigated* the change in library names > > upstream to allow the devel packages to be installed simultaneously, > > because they have no intention of

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:46:03PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Wrong. It was Red Hat who *instigated* the change in library names > > upstream to allow the devel packages to be installed simultaneously, > > because they have no i

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-24 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Wrong. It was Red Hat who *instigated* the change in library names > upstream to allow the devel packages to be installed simultaneously, > because they have no intention of trying to recompile GNOME 1 against a > different libpng.

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:03:53PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:02:22AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Q: Why don't we just say goodbye to binary-compatibility with other > > distros on those few corner cases ? > > A: I'm not against that, but some people in the proje

Re: libpng clarification

2003-04-24 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:02:22AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Q: Why don't we just say goodbye to binary-compatibility with other > distros on those few corner cases ? > A: I'm not against that, but some people in the project seem to be. > Anyway, this is certainly not a move we can make with

libpng clarification

2003-04-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
As some people were asking for it, and the situation is pretty unclear, I think it is time for a few answers to the questions that can be asked about libpng. This mail is targetted to maintainers of packages using libpng. Q: Why are there 4 versions of libpng on my system ? A: In fact, there are o