replacing included 3rd party libraries with system libraries

[David Herron]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:38 -0700, David Herron wrote:  
>   
>> As Tom said, this is being considered for the XCB fix (to dlopen the
>> xinerama library if it's on the system)
>>     
> Where is this discussed?
>   
The XCB fix discussion has been on an internal mailing list so far.

The bugs.sun.com page is:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6532373

I'll send a note to the assigned developer to ask him to post status on 
the awt-dev mailing list.

>> I remember seeing requests in some of the mailing lists for projects
>> to do some of these:
>>
>> <AWT Dev> [PATCHes] Allow using system's copies of libjpeg, libpng and
>> giflib for splashscreen
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2007-June/000021.html
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2007-May/000000.html
>>
>> Using system tzdata
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2007-August/000066.html
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/i18n-dev/2007-August/000001.html
>>
>> Generally this kind of change should be proposed in the relevant group
>> mailing list.
>>     
> Thanks for the references. It is pretty hard to follow the overall
> project with so many mailinglist (and imho none of them have enough
> traffic to warrant being separate lists).
>   
I agree right now it's a little hard to follow - but what if there was 
lots of traffic all in one list?  At least the way it is now someone 
who's specifically interested in X will only receive email on X.

> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>   

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