Re: [Inkscape-devel] Duplicating libcroco code in Inkscape tree

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:42:58PM +1100, Peter Moulder wrote:

There are two main ways of addressing this that I'm considering:

i) Put our own version of the rule selection code (cr-sel-eng.{c,h}) into Inkscape, and make it play nice with an installed (external) copy of libcroco 0.6.

ii) Put all of libcroco into the Inkscape source tree.

I am generally against putting external libraries into source trees. They have a tendency to bitrot very very badly. If it can be done in such a way that the separation between inkscape and the lib is clear, and any changes made to it are sent to the upstream, then I guess it's okay. I still think it's dangerous. :)