Re: Minutes from July 30 Release Wranglers call

Frederic Crozat <fcrozat-7Aj/b8uzpy6AmYF/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.release-wranglers
Organization Mandrakesoft
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le ven 30/07/2004 à 20:45, Daniel Stone a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:41:01PM -0600, Paul Anderson wrote:
> >   (3) One could add some ifdefs to the code so that the build of
> >       the problematic area will only be attempted if it finds the
> >       right version
> > 
> > Jim feels that we should bump to 2.1.8 and put a big note about
> > this in the release notes about it.  Although #ifdefs might work
> > for now, Jim raised concern that the ifdefs will be forgotten
> > and live forever, complicating long-term maintainability.  Jim
> > would like to open up a discussion with the freetype folks about
> > this so that we catch these types of problems sooner rather than
> > later.
> 
> FWIW, I feel that (3) is really the only option. If it matters to drop
> it out of the code, something like this may help:
> /* This is just for compatibility with freetype < 2.1.8; feel free to
>  * remove it after 2004-12-31. -jg */
> 
> Not many distributions (read: none) ship newer versions of FreeType, and
> unconditionally using our own is just *pain*, for many reasons. Not
> least of which -- anyone remember the security hole in zlib?

Freetype 2.1.9 is already in cooker and will be in Mdk 10.1 Community
Edition (scheduled end of August..)

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat-7Aj/b8uzpy6AmYF/[email protected]>
Mandrakesoft
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