On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Sven Neumann wrote: > > It's only recently I've installed GTK2 and got the PangoFT2 bits > > working - and it is a laborious and painful process. > > Could you please explain what's so painful about it? Almost all > distributions include packages for it for quite some time already and > even compiling from source is pretty much straight-forward. > > Please note that during the 1.3 development process we did never > depend on the very latest versions of the required libraries. We > always assured that even debian testing which is a very conservative > distribution has the packages available that are needed to build > GIMP-1.3. If we decided to change our dependencies to a newer version, > we always checked if this is really necessary. Very glad to hear that you keep to the highest development standards and only upgrade when really necessary. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
