Attachment 147315 Details for Bug 225477 – IRC Log from #poppler trying to get details about issue

IRC Log from #poppler trying to get details about issue

#poppler-2007-02-04-19h29.log (text/plain), 1.83 KB, created by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal on 2007-02-04 18:33:52 UTC

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>--> Du snakker nÃ¥ i #poppler
><Foolish> Can some of you help me in clearing this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225477 . The key question is "whether the xpdf-headers are not enabled becasue they are too new (AKA unstsable) or are deprecated so they will be removed in a later version of poppler."
><tsdgeos> xpdf headers are not installed by default because they are considered internal
><tsdgeos> and imposible to mantain binary compatibility
><Foolish> so any software depending on them to build is faulty by design?
><tsdgeos> no :D
><tsdgeos> the idea would be that they use the frontend headers
><tsdgeos> be it glib/qt/qt4 frontends
><tsdgeos> or create a plain C/C++ frontend that makes mantaining BIC easy
><Foolish> I don't understand, then again, I'm a moron. I have to convince either the maintainer of poppler to include the xpdf-headers, or the developer behind the software I'm building, referencer, not to depend on the xpdf headers to build. Which would make more sense?
><tsdgeos> Foolish: xpdf-headers are included
><tsdgeos> just not installed
><tsdgeos> you can call ./configure --installXPDFHEaders 
><tsdgeos> or something if you want
><Foolish> Sure, but the package in Fedora doesn't do that as of now, IE: the headers are not available in fedora packages of poppler
><tsdgeos> right
><Foolish> So, should I convince the maintainer of said packages to inlcude the headers, or should I convince the developer of software that depends on the xpfd-headers not to do so?
><tsdgeos> what you should try to do is "abstract" the features needed by the package that is using xpdf headers and send us a patch that implements this features as a poppler frontend
><Foolish> now there's a task way over my head
><Foolish> but thanks, I'll pass the information on. OK if I log this and pass the log on to people who might know better?
><tsdgeos> yeah

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