On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 12:07:56PM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hello All,
> I've been doing some work on getting graphviz updated, and I'd like some
> opinions on some things.
>
> Looking at the various source rpm's, including our original one, I
> really like the one that actually comes from graphviz. It is very well
> written and self documented.
> But there are a couple of problems.
>
> 1 - By default, graphviz-lua isn't built. In SL 5 we have the package
> graphviz-lua but lua isn't in Scientific Linux 5. Does anyone mind if we
> drop graphviz-lua from the release?
>
> 2 - By default, graphviz-ocaml isn't built. In SL 5 we have the package
> graphviz-ocaml, but ocaml, or even caml, isn't in Scientific Linux 5.
> Does anyone mind if we drop graphviz-ocaml from the release?
>
> 3 - By default, graphviz-php isn't built. In SL 5 we have the package
> graphviz-php. But the build is failing whenever we try to build
> graphviz-php. I'm worried that we need a newer version of php for this
> to build. Does anyone mind if we drop graphviz-php from the release?
> If nobody is using it, then I'm not sure if it is worth the effort to
> debug the build. But if some people are using it, then I'll give it
> some more work.
>
> 4 - By default, PANGOCAIRO is turned on. Florian La Roche wants this
> turned off so that it doesn't pull in all the Pango and Cairo
> dependancies. But when I look at Cairo and Pango, it says
> "Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-quality
> display and print output."
> "Pango is a system for layout and rendering of internationalized text."
> To my untrained eye, it really looks like we want this. graphviz is
> used all around the world, and don't people want the printouts and
> displays to look nice?
>
> Thoughts from everyone?
Hello Troy,
minimal investigation shows the following two bugzilla entries at Red Hat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468093
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447133
The current Fedora rpm package does contain gnome/cairo/pango deps,
so I would keep them, but then think about a subrpm with dot,nop
included and also move in the apps which do not have lots of dependencies.
Thanks a lot,
Florian La Roche
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