Il 25/09/2012 11:31, Peter Maydell ha scritto: >> > Even though pixman is used by core linux packages it is still a young >> > project. On older distros (RHEL-5 for example) it isn't included and >> > must be compiled manually. > For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument > against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of the compute > cluster machines here are RHEL5 and it would be pretty awkward to > deal with manually building a dependent library.) > > So they're a new library -- how good are they at API/ABI stability?
Very. pixman is not that young actually (2003), but it was built into both cairo and Xorg until ~2007. Unfortunately, the pixman code that is in cairo prefixes all names with "_cairo_" (so they look like "_cairo_pixman_image_create") and there is no public header file. But I don't see any reason why pixman couldn't be included in EPEL. Paolo
