From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from www.sonnenberger.org (www.sonnenberger.org [92.79.50.50]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o9OGn8T5006426 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:49:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from britannica.bec.de (www.sonnenberger.org [192.168.1.10]) by www.sonnenberger.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA52166795 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:49:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by britannica.bec.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7C441117EBB; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:49:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:49:45 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: implement .so Message-ID: <20101024164945.GA25275@britannica.bec.de> Mail-Followup-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv References: <20101024164057.GF20876@iris.usta.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-tech Reply-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101024164057.GF20876@iris.usta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 06:40:57PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > not only Xenocara (i.e. OpenBSD X.org), but various ports as well > use .so. I'm not thrilled about that, i think .so is useful for > general-purpose typesetting, but rather dumb in a manual formatter. > Yet, being even less thrilled about the prospect to rewrite the > X.org build system or about patching lots of ports, i made up my > mind to implement .so. I don't think any patching itself has to be done. There is already a tool called soelim to expand them statically. Remember that we discussed .so in Rostock? The behavior is not exactly sane. So from a maintainance perspective, I think it is much easier to just handle the 99% of easy cases in ports/pkgsrc and patch the few remaining cases. Joerg -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv