Hi All,
I just thought that we could use a quick status check on the embedded libraries in the Inkscape repo... i.e., what we have, and what we intend to do with them. My personal preference is to get rid of as many of them as possible. Here is a list of what I think the current status is... please let me know what you think:
* cxxtest - There's a patch for building against an external copy, but it introduces a few compiler warnings and there's no OSX port of cxxtest available yet [1]. We're currently running an ancient version with no customisation... we should really bump to the most recent upstream version and wait for OSX before we can drop it. Also, there's talk of replacing this with the google test framework.
* 2geom - Tracking the possibility of building against an external copy here [2]. Last time I checked, there was a crash on startup. Perhaps it would be helpful to explicitly track the upstream revision of lib2geom that's currently embedded in trunk? Until it's packaged in distros, there's not much scope for aggressively pursuing this!
* libavoid/libcola/libvpsc - all taken from the Adaptagrams project [3]. Review needed to see what divergence exists between our copy and the upstream version. Not available in many distros.
* libcroco - tracked here [4]. All upstream changes merged. Minimisation of the diff in progress, then we can send patches upstream where possible. Available in Ubuntu, at least.
* libdepixilize - New GSOC contribution. Any plans for this to be released as a standalone package? Would be good to enable an optional external build.
* libgdl - We build against external lib when using the experimental gtk+ 3 branch. All the important patches have been accepted upstream. We'll delete our internal copy when we finally switch to gtk+ 3 builds. See bug #792115 [5]. No further action needed
* libnrtype - I believe that there was a plan to replace most/all of this with Pango [6]. Is this still the intention? Is anyone in particular coordinating things?
* libuemf - New contribution [7]: Is there a plan to push this to distros? Would be good to enable an optional external build
* livarot - Apparently huge deviation from upstream lib [8]. Not in many distros.
...and I think that's it!
AV
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1094771 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1155947 [3] http://www.adaptagrams.org/ [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/648246 [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/792115 [6] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Pangoification [7] http://sourceforge.net/projects/libuemf/ [8] http://sourceforge.net/projects/livarot/