Re: ideas for returning memory to the OS

* Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > Of course. But folks - developers and distro maintainers - 
> > normally have to download a lot of other packages (or let their
> > packaging systems do that job). 
> 
> You seem to be good at ignoring the existence of Windows...

Actually, I don't care much about it.
BTW: there's cygwin, mingw, etc.

> > Really ?!
> > AFAIK, mozilla can use an already installed cairo
> > (at least "--enable-system-cairo" implies that).
> 
> It can, yes.  But no shipping distros have a new enough cairo version 
> yet, last I checked.  

Ah ? Which version do you require ?

> Neither does Windows, nor OS X. 

Can't self-compiling people just be expected update ? 

> If cairo were a mature library such that everyone could be expected to 
> have a reasonable baseline version of it installed (at least on the 
> Linux side), we could try not shipping it (on Linux).

IMHO, cairo is quite stable. At least I didn't have any major trouble
yet (besides the stupid feature-deps ;-o).


cu
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