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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0008377 | Scribus | Build System | public | 2009-08-24 13:08 | 2009-08-27 22:41 |
Reporter | sharkcz | Assigned To | fschmid | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
Fixed in Version | 1.5.0svn | ||||
Summary | 0008377: Scribus should be able to use system libwpg library | ||||
Description | The newly introduced WPG import plugins contains a copy of the libwpg library, but Scribus should be able to use system libwpg library. Using internal copies of libraries that already exist (or can exist) in a system is prohibited in Linux distributions like Fedora or Debian. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Bundled_Libraries for a rationale. I am working on a patch to the build system that will allow to use the system libwpg library. | ||||
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Our "copy" of libwpg in scribus sources is not a copy anymore but a fork. |
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And what are the reasons for the fork? |
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The reasons for that fork are: - the original libwpg isn't in active development for about 8 months now. - i've already added some features and corrections to the fork - i've also tried their development branch, but this one doens't work better at all - the last committ to the development branch was 7 months ago, so i do not expect that this library will be updated in the near future |
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But did you try to take over the development of the library on sf.net instead of creating a fork? Or the current maintainer didn't ever respond? Please don't take me wrong, but I trying to bring here a view of a Linux distributions. |
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I didn't want to try to take over the development of that library, because i think they developers are heading into a different direction than me. I only want a working WPG importer for Scribus, nothing else, whereas the libwpg seems to head to be a converter for WPG->SVG and WPG->ODG. |
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BTW: What about Qt and e.g Poppler? Both have copies of libs in their sources. |
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We will not be changing this at this point in time. |
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Copies of libs in the sources aren't bad if the project will use them only when system libs aren't available during the build. Could you add a README file into the wpg subdir with a summary from the comments here (what's the start version, reasons, intentions, ...)? Thanks. |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2009-08-24 13:08 | sharkcz | New Issue | |
2009-08-24 14:22 | jghali | Note Added: 0022403 | |
2009-08-24 14:48 | sharkcz | Note Added: 0022404 | |
2009-08-24 15:17 | fschmid | Note Added: 0022405 | |
2009-08-24 15:22 | fschmid | Note Edited: 0022405 | |
2009-08-24 15:52 | sharkcz | Note Added: 0022406 | |
2009-08-24 16:07 | fschmid | Note Added: 0022407 | |
2009-08-24 16:56 | fschmid | Note Added: 0022409 | |
2009-08-24 19:42 | cbradney | Note Added: 0022413 | |
2009-08-24 19:42 | cbradney | Status | new => resolved |
2009-08-24 19:42 | cbradney | Resolution | open => won't fix |
2009-08-24 19:42 | cbradney | Assigned To | => cbradney |
2009-08-24 19:43 | cbradney | Status | resolved => closed |
2009-08-25 07:04 | sharkcz | Note Added: 0022423 | |
2009-08-25 07:04 | sharkcz | Status | closed => feedback |
2009-08-25 07:04 | sharkcz | Resolution | won't fix => reopened |
2009-08-26 20:53 | cbradney | Status | feedback => assigned |
2009-08-26 20:53 | cbradney | Assigned To | cbradney => fschmid |
2009-08-27 08:06 | fschmid | Status | assigned => resolved |
2009-08-27 08:06 | fschmid | Fixed in Version | => 1.5.0svn |
2009-08-27 08:06 | fschmid | Resolution | reopened => fixed |
2009-08-27 22:41 | christoph_s | Status | resolved => closed |