As an occasional developer, I ran into a problem trying to get CVS pango working - errors on link with the qt libraries. Anyone else expereienced these? Not at my machine now, or I'd include the errors. I didn't see any obvious switches in the configure. I'm a bit annoyed that qt is keeping me from compiling gtk... Seth --- Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:12:05AM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:27:59AM -0400, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > > For CVS gimp, it is definitely not a problem to require the current > > > bleeding edge GTK. > > > > Malcolm did you ask me first? If you didn't, how did you come to the > > conclusion that it wouldn't be a problem for me (a developer, even if > > not one who's able to dedicate many hours to Gimp right now) to > > install and tend a GTK+ HEAD tree just to keep my Gimp builds green? > > Get a grip! I'm not the one making the decision; what I posted was an > opinion. > > That said, if you want to do development and gimp chooses to track > gtk+'s main branch, then there is a once off effort to get the gtk setup > working and port your stuff. Then it's minor updating and rebuilding. > For many months now I, personally, have not had problems keeping a gtk+ > CVS installation running for my development work. They are in API freeze > (more or less) now, so things are only going to get better. > > > How will this make things better for me? > > Apparently you've decided it won't. Deal with it. > > >NB I am not blind and I don't write code in Hebrew > > So pango is not included specifically for you. You are lucky. However, > the i18n team will make use of pango to get decent display and widget > layout. I admit that a visually impaired version of the Gimp would be, > well, interesting, but a version allowing alternate input methods would > be useful (e.g. somebody who cannot use their hands). Incorporating > these toolkits means that _other_ people can come along and make your > plugins work well for everybody. > > Malcolm > > -- > How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand... > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
