Re: Font::*, FreezeThaw, GD & GIFgraph (Graph::* being removed)

[email protected] (Stephen Zander) 31 Mar 2000 11:15:18 -0800
Newsgroups perl.sdk
Organization speaking through, but not for, McKessonHBOC Corp.
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>>>>> "jhi" == Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> writes:
    jhi> How are you going to deal with the external libraries (png,
    jhi> jpeg, zlib, *dbm, db, ...)?  Just hope they are there or
    jhi> should we attempt to do more?  No need to decide now, just
    jhi> food for thought...

Where library licences and tarball size allow, I think we should
distribute them with the sdk.

For those cases where porting said library to a system is a challange
(the non-POSIX systems generally), throw up a big banner, punt
gracefully and hope the kind souls managing the perl port to such
systems can help out.

-- 
Stephen

"A duck!"