On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:19:02 +0300 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Dennis Heuer wrote:
you know that these are unsupported!? should i really touch them even if i am more the sherlock holmes guy liking to waste a weekend for only watching c++ code to snailcrawl up the screen?
i still can't find anything clever on your comment because it is not clever at all to install unsupported headers. can't even see why inkscape relies on them. dropping this dependency would be clever from my point of view!
I'm genuinely surprised to find myself possible to answer you mails when your volume slider is that close to maximum point.
stand up before a mirror and speak: it's me who provokes this; it's me who provokes this...
better is: i should re-think my style of support; i should re-think my style of support...
If you can implement PDF importing without PDFDoc.h, please send us a patch. There is nothing _I_ can do about the way we use poppler.
first, i don't have to know this at all because i am not an inkscape developer, as i wrote early in this thread! so, don't expect me to know about this but rather tell about it early. it helps understanding the case!
second, pointing somebody being able to compile a source package to "./configure --help" - and smiling - treats him like a dumm person.
third, there is no option provided that clearly expresses: "i am the one installing PDFDoc.h"
fourth, instead of pointing me to *second*, you could have targetet me to the correct option easily and without the need for a clever smiley!
fifth, nobody needs to play "sherlock holmes" if he just wants to install and use a package. not even a geek like linus torvalds knows the content and the relations of the packages on his system - and he doesn't want to!
sixth, inkscape relies on an exceptional option because this is not needed for any other tool (evince, abiword...) i know of. and i have installed manually about 300 packages on this system. this exceptional option could (or rather should) be expressed in the dependencies section.
seventh, if those headers are exceptional and optional (and they are!), configure should check for them instead of make should break somewhere in the build after half an hour!
eighth, if somebody posts to you that he is not an inkscape developer (as i did!), this doesn't mean that you can treat him like a dumm child, smiling at him, and tell him to play "sherlock holmes" to solve the problem himself. at least not if you take support for serious.
i stop here!
possibly you now can see why my "volume slider" is pushed so high. if not, shoot yourself! and, thanks for the fish...