pixman [LSARC/2008/637 FastTrack timeout 10/22/2008]

[James Carlson]

Alan Coopersmith writes:
> Certainly if there is ever a libpixman-2, we will have to be very careful
> about how it's integrated, but having Cairo on the client side link against
> libpixman-2 while Xorg links against libpixman-1 on the server side should
> work - it's just situations like Xorg using libpixman-1 while an Xorg
> driver links to libpixman-2 that we have to avoid.

Right; it'd be third-party drivers that'd be potentially toxic.

> Yes, but this is the name from upstream that will be used on all other OS'es,
> due to the above mentioned plan for allowing parallel versions to be installed.
> We've already got plenty of precedent for these in the GNOME libraries (since
> the referenced URL promoting this scheme comes from GNOME developer Havoc
> Pennington, who used it heavily in GNOME).

OK; thanks.  I'm not sure that "la-la-la-la I can't hear you" is a
good answer for the upstream maintainer to provide to a technical
problem, but it sounds like we've at least done our due diligence by
raising the issue.  Customers can always sort out any smoking craters
that result.

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