ksvg* and libart forking revisited

[Nikolas Zimmermann]

On Sunday 21 April 2002 12:57, Nikolas Zimmermann wrote:
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 10:41, Werner Trobin wrote:
> > Hi (WildFox)!
>
> Hi (Werner)!
>
> > <rant>
> > At the end of the last thread about that topic I got the impression that
> > WildFox agreed to move libart out of kdecore. This didn't happen up to
> > now, so I'd like to remind you why keeping libart in kdecore isn't a good
> > idea:
>
> Sorry i was very busy until today.
> I'll do it today...
>
> > An application like karbon or kontour, using the KOffice fork of libart
> > works when started from the konsole, as it gets to use the libart version
> > it linked to (the one in lib/kopainter/...). When started from kdeinit it
> > seems to mix the two different libart versions (as only a part of libart
> > is in kdecore).
> >
> > This leads to crashes for some people (Lenny told me about crashes) and
> > to corrupted drawings for others as we're mixing rgb and rgba (check the
> > 48KB screenshot at:
> > http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/t/trobin/snapshot2.png).
> >
> > Can we please decide on *one* libart version and move it out of kdecore?
> > I don't have enough knowledge about all the libart issues, so I can't do
> > it unless you tell me which version to move to kdesupport.
> > <rant/>
>
> I'll do it now.
>
> Sorry

Status update:
All patches are submitted to the last release coordinator of libart.
If they are ok, he'll release a new libart version tomorrow, so
we can depend on it for 3.1 and we don't have to check libart into
kdesupport anymore.

Hope that's ok now :)

Bye
 Bye
  Niko

>
> Bye
>  Bye
>   Niko
>
> > Ciao,
> > Werner

-- 
Nikolas Zimmermann
wildfox at kde.org