[PATCH util-macros] XORG_WITH_FOP: add minimum version checking support

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 12:41:37 PDT 2011


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> I am wondering if for libX11 we should not take this opportunity to use
> XORG_WITH_FOP([1.0]). This fixes the problem where fop crashes in the nls
> directory. Few people have 1.0 (not in any Debian distro yet), so it would
> be equivalent to the current "no". As more people upgrade, it would tell us
> if there are any other problems. I don't recall if there were other issues.
> There is some time before next release...

I'd do it. Generating the pdf is a pretty narrow use case, and I'd
personally rather have people not crash. It looks like fop-1.0 was
released almost a year ago[1]. That's plenty of time to get with the
program, and maybe it would be the thing to force people to upgrade.
:)

[1] http://archive.apache.org/dist/xmlgraphics/fop/source/

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Dan


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