Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: hugin - Frontend for Panorama Tools, similar to PTAssembler, PTGui or Open for Windows https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206814 ------- Additional Comments From jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx 2007-02-22 13:21 EST ------- As one of those users... I'm KEEN on getting this in. Is the issue of the vigra library really a blocker? The 'thou shall not build statically' rule has room for exceptions and its not as strict as the 'do not ship static libraries for use by others' rule. Or to ask it another way... how is this case different from what is done with the applications shipped in the netcdf package, which build statically against netcdf libraries...until the next upstream release is available which will make it possible to build dynamically? There is already precedent in the software repository for statically linking against libraries, as special cases. Has upstream for the vigra library reject the modifications? Or is this strictly a matter of slow development timescales for the vigra library project to incorporate changes. If there is a way forward with upstream, so that we can link dynamically in a future version, I don't see this a blocker. But if the upstream project has rejected the modifications, then the library will need to be forked into a seperate project and shipped as a dynamic library in the hugin package. If we are going to special case this, then we need to have some confidence that the issue will become irrelevant as part of forseeable upstream development. Again I refer to the netcdf package as an example, and the development work being done to on netcdf v4 which should fix the special case static linking that the netcdf v3 package has to do. Have has this been taken to the extras or maintainers list for a larger discussion, concerning this can be considered a special case allowance? -jef -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review