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March 21, 2005

2005-03-21 Weekly Update

Checkins during the past week: Patches lurking:

Posted by tor at March 21, 2005 11:16 PM

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[Since I missed the initial cairo checkin, posting it here]

What's the reason to include cairo and libpixman into mozilla source tree? Isn't it fat enough already?

Was anything wrong with autoconf checks for installed cairo that used to exist before?

Posted by: rkagan at March 22, 2005 5:39 PM

There's a number of reasons that we include a snapshot of cairo in the mozilla source tree. First, the cairo API is still being designed, and the mozilla code needs a given API set to work with. Second, cairo isn't yet a standard distribution installed library on linux, with even less chance being already installed on other platforms where we use cairo (other unixes, OS-X, and possibly in the future win32).

A system installed cairo can still be used if desired by passing --enable-system-cairo when configuring mozilla.

Posted by: tor at March 24, 2005 6:12 PM