Re: ext/gd, cleanup, iirc
| From: | Edin Kadribasic | Date: | Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:40:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: ext/gd, cleanup, iirc | ||
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Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:36:55 +0200
> Edin Kadribasic <edink@emini.dk> wrote:
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>>I say we do not have to require the latest and the greatest libs.
>>Just require the latest known working.
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>>I'm using freetype-2.0.9 and libpng-1.0.14 and see no reason why
>>we should artificially increase the requirements.
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> For libpng there is a security reason. For freetype there is a
> quality reason.
Distros upgrade security issues without upgrading the whole libraries.
> As argument, we are talking about versions that will be required
> _when_ php 6.0 will get out. Meaning they will not be the latest
> and greates versions.
Just don't make any hard dependancies please.
Edin