[desktop-discuss] libpixman

[Alan Coopersmith]

We should have only one copy of libpixman in Solaris if we can - multiple
copies just leads to wasted efforts of duplicating fixes to both, and
risks of incompatible versions being loaded into the same process.

	-alan-

Alfred Peng wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
>     Cairo library should have included the libpixman statistically from
> its Makefile. If Xorg delivers libpixman, does that mean cairo should
> depend on this one?
> 
>     The pixman header file should be removed I think. Will work with the
> Mozilla community on that.
> 
> -Alfred
> 
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Xorg is going to start depending on libpixman soon - does anyone else
>> include this already or plan to?   (On my test box with vermillion_devel
>> installed I see /usr/include/firefox/libpixman/pixman.h but no library.)
>>
>> If not, I guess I'll start planning to include in X.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Pixman dependency
>> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:21:48 +0200
>> From: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann at daimi.au.dk>
>> To: xorg at freedesktop.org
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As a heads up, over the next few days I'll be adding a hard dependency
>> on the pixman library, which is available from a git repository on
>>
>>          git.freedesktop.org/git/pixman
>>
>> Then I am going to move code from the X server into this library. The
>> code in question is:
>>
>>          - region code
>>          - compositing code from fb
>>          - trapezoid rasterization from fb
>>
>> I don't expect any API or ABI changes from this as the pixman
>> datatypes are binary compatible and I'll leave the existing typedef
>> names in place.
>>
>>
>> Soren
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