[IcedTea6 1.10] RFC: Add support for libpng 1.5

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 10:08 Thu 31 Mar     , Xerxes Rånby wrote:
> On 2011-03-30 01:38, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > On 16:30 Tue 29 Mar     , Xerxes Rånby wrote:
> >> On 2011-03-29 16:12, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> >>> The attached patch adds support for libpng 1.5 and was contributed
> >>> by Alexis Ballier via the Gentoo bug database:
> >>>
> >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356743
> >>>
> >>> The patch is already on HEAD and I'd like to add it to the 1.10
> >>> branch.  It still compiles fine against libpng 1.4.5.
> >>>
> >>> Ok for 1.10?
> 
> >> What are the lowest version of libpng that we want to support?
> >
> > Well let's see what the results are first, but if it's a choice of
> > supporting 1.5 or 1.2 in 1.10, then we need to support 1.5 as 1.10 is
> > going to be around for a while.
> >
> > I'm surprised any distro using something as new as 1.10 is still on
> > such an older version of libpng.
> 
> Yes the world are full of surprises :)
> 
> The icedtea6-jaunty-ia32 builder that uses libpng 1.2.27 have built fine 
> using this patch applied on HEAD.
> http://builder.classpath.org/icedtea/buildbot/buildslaves/jaunty-ia32
> 
> I am all in favour for pushing this patch into 1.10 as well.
> 
> Please commit.
> 

Great news! Thanks.

> Cheers
> Xerxes

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Andrew :)

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