Re: Input regarding dependencies requested

sum1_lists@yahoo.com wrote:
> --- Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> 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.)
>>
>>
>
> Would it be possible to update the link-grammar dependency? It looks
> like 4.2.1 is still used even though there have been a few stability
> fixes since then.
>
>
Sure! Guess I didn't know there was a newer release - can do!

Ryan

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