Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (282 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/09/2010 09:10 PM, Peter Linnell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Short answer:  Not at all. Major desktop apps like GIMP, Inkscape,
> Digikam and KDE4 all require or can optionally use lcms1. I do not
> foresee all of them switching to lcms2 before 11.4. THe code delta to
> support lcms2 vs lcms1 is not large for an app using lcms, but I am
> not sure all these apps can take advantage of the new lcms2 features,
> except maybe speed.
>
> In Scribus, the next stable version under current development can use
> either as a compile time option currently, but I suspect we will
> require lcms2 before we release 1.4. (We means, yes I am upstream.)
>
> Longer answer:
>
> First, Marti Maria he developer is a great guy and a good example of
> how to develop/maintain a low level library aka distro friendly. He is
> security minded and very attentive to bug reports and sensible feature
> requests. There is a lot of error code handling in lcms in general to
> prevent memory overflows or crashes, especially when handling
> malformed or non spec compliant icc profiles.
>
> Second, lcms1 is based on ICC ISO V2. lcms2 supports all of ICC 4,
> plus some extensions. So, there are definite API changes.
>
> Marti has very carefully coded lcms2 to make it parallel installable
> on all platforms. He has specifically mentioned this on the lcms list.
> Moreover, if someone found a serious flaw in lcms1, I am sure a fix
> would come out rapidly. So, for the time frame of 11.4, shipping both
> versions is not an issue.
>
> I hope the above explains enough detail why this will need to be until
> the release after next.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
I just hate parallel versions of libs from a maintenance point of view,
when there's the convenience of the old library being available the
switch to the new one usually happens when a delete request is made for
old. I wouldn't have noticed anything if the submit request wasn't made
from lcms2 to lcms, I eventually revoked it when I saw lcms2's includes
were all named lcms2 because it will definitely cause lots of build
failures. One thing I don't agree with is naming the library liblcms2-2
and liblcms2-2-devel do you mind if I change it to liblcms2, the old
lcms version is liblcms1. If you supply the message as per :
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:How_to_contribute_to_Factory#Adding_a_package_to_Factory
I'll be happy to submit it.
Regards
Dave P
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