Re: Input regarding dependencies requested

Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>
> Hiya ants! As we near the 2.5.0 development release, I'm working on
> getting all my ducks (ants?) in a row on Windows. Specifically, I'm
> looking to make sure we're using the best version of dependencies
> (which are now used in the core of the program) that are available.
> The following libraries have an updated version available compared to
> the one that has been in use on the nightly builds up to this point.
> If anyone has any specific experience or recommendation about these
> libraries, please let me know - I am inclined to use the latest
> available otherwise.
>
> Library Name - Version In Use - Latest Version - source
> libbzip2 - 1.0.3-1 - 1.0.4 - http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html
> (Note: bzip2 may be dictated by the version used by the libgsf binary
> - there was a problem here in the past. I think we're actually using
> the one from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617 right now.)
> glib - 2.10.3 - 2.12.7 -
> http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
> libgsf - 1.14.1 - 1.14.3 -
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/libgsf/1.14/
> libxml2 - 2.6.26 - 2.6.27 - http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/
> libpsiconv - 0.9.6 - 0.9.8 -
> http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/psiconv/download.php
> (Note: We're actually not packaging this at the moment, but it may be
> feasible again since bz2abw is no longer a plugin, see
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9420 . There is a mild
> hack that was necessary for 0.9.6, I will test and see if it still is
> needed.)
> NSIS (Installer) - 2.19 - 2.22 - http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page
> (This is not really a dependency for the program, but it is for the
> installer.)
>
> Thanks for any input you can provide!
>
PS. My build instructions as used for the nightly builder can be found
at http://abisource.com/~rp/abi25.html - I just updated it with the
versions currently in use. If you try these instructions and they do
not work, please let me know - I don't want this procedure to be
undocumented voodoo...

Ryan

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Ryan Pavlik
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