[desktop-discuss] libpixman

[Alan Coopersmith]

So will JDS be providing libpixman and X depending on that, or should we
plan on adding it to X and have JDS remove their copy in the future?

	-alan-

Brian Cameron wrote:
> 
> Alan:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Historically pixman has been a part of libcairo as an internal library
> statically linked in.  However, it is in the process of becomming a
> separate library that cairo will eventually depend upon.  Here is
> Soren's roadmap posted about a month ago to the cairo list.
> 
>   http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2007-April/010371.html
> 
> If Xorg is also now depending upon it, then there will probably be a
> short term time period when cairo and Xorg use different versions of the
> library, but I think the community is already planning to sort this
> out.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
>> 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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>>>>   
>>
>>
> 

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