Hey All,
Okay, so my intentions with this thread was to find out more about our contributors. Partially just to find out what people are using and have available, as well as to see if we could possibly do a one-time bump on required versions of libraries we link against. For me, I am asking for this across the board (to what Ubuntu 10.10 shipped with) so that we can use some newer gtk features as well (in addition to the cairo need).
We do have a couple people that responded who are still running Lucid (10.04) and that's where we have hit the cairo issue... basically we need a feature that was shipped with a later version of cairo. I see that Alex went ahead and bumped the cairo requirement in trunk, which we can revert if necessary, but I'm more interested in finding out if people will really protest this one-time early lib version bump.
For the record, the replaced renderer and the fact that we're in a refactoring development cycle are the only things that make the early bump an option in my view. I would never ask this of people during any normal development cycle, so please don't be concerned that this will be a trend by any means.
So, anyone against this or in favor of it?
Note: This will have zero impact on windows devs since we supply the libs and minimal impact on OSX (it seems) since the macports stuff appears to be pretty up-to-date.
Cheers, Josh
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:36 AM, ~suv <suv-sf@...58...> wrote:
On 5/7/11 23:54, Josh Andler wrote:
On the Mac side, what are your upgrade habits?
Not a typical Mac user here:
Still using Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 (32bit) on my late 2008 MacBookPro (Intel), even though the hardware would have supported the upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64bit).
I don't have plans to migrate to a new version of the OS, until I manage to buy me a second computer. The current one is kept up-to-date with security and system updates provided by Apple (sometimes I might wait a few weeks with installing the update after it has been pushed, depending on the urgency of the fixed issues).
MacPorts, which provides most of the dependencies required for self-compiled ported software, gets updated about every other week, or whenever a newer version of an important library is available.
~suv