| Frank Küster 2006-01-13, 10:44 pm |
| Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:00:53PM +0100, Isaac Clerencia wrote:
, see[vbcol=seagreen]
of[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> Also from that KDE bug report:
>
>
> It would be even better to see the poppler people working with Xpdf's
> upstream. It's good that not all these packages will have statically-link=
ed=20
> copies of xpdf code now. It would be even better if poppler wasn't a
> fork of Xpdf though.
Right; but from my reading of the poppler archives I understood that
xpdf was not willing to accept patches by the various derivative
projects, and therefore a fork was decided to be necessary for them to
progress. Doing this in form of a library is for sure a good move.
> Already poppler is behind on a lot of bug fixes from Xpdf 3.01.
> I imagine most have been merged by now, but there's a lot of duplicate
> effort involved.
The poppler people still struggle with their infrastructure, see
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...ary/001411.html
and
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...ary/001418.html
Regards, Frank
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Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer
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