On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:20:04AM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:47:28PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > I don't think anyone here can promise you any given piece of software > > will last 15 years, but given GTK and Firefox use Cairo (gecko not > > widget-side only), OpenOffice.org is being converted to use it, and > > they're all massive codebases with huge install bases, I'd say the > > chances of cairo not being deployed on a current system, or going away > > in the next 5 years, are pretty slight. > > While it seems highly probably that something called cairo will still > exist in 5 years, whether it will be in any way compatible with > current's cairo seems on the other hand highly improbable. Outside of > the kernel compatibility seems to be considered unimportant nowadays. > Add to that explicit measures against shared libraries and you end up > with a very short lifetime for both source and binaries.
That "shared" was supposed to be "static", obviously. OG. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
