[poppler] poppler and TeX Live -- request for a few modifications

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 26 de març de 2012, a les 11:50:04, Peter Breitenlohner va 
escriure:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > That is only if you use the unsupported --enable-xpdf-headers option
> > otherwise only the first file is installed and all is nice.
> 
> I had missed this point.
> 
> > Actually as I said you should not be using unsupported poppler internal
> > headers, we've said this a million times, and you keep ignoring us.
> 
> Yes, I know.  But this is not my decision, I am just integrating pdfTeX and
> luaTeX into TeX Live.  Originally the respective developpers had used the
> xpdf code for the inclusion of pdf images.  Next came the idea that distros
> might prefer to use the shared poppler library - as one-to-one replacement.
> Finally the luaTeX developpers have decided that they always need poppler
> but basically they still use the unsupported/deprecated xpdf headers.
> 
> So now we have a (somewhat stripped down) copy of poppler-0.18.4 in the TeX
> Live source tree but distros may choose to use an installed version.
> 
> > And even if you ignore us, we are nice people and implement something
> > specifically you need in the internal headers, but you do not check that
> > our changes do what you want until months later of the code being added.
> And we are grateful.  I am, however, not on this list and was not aware that
> I should watch the git repository.  Thus I was waiting for poppler-0.19.0.
> > And even if all it takes for you is adding some simple quotes to fix your
> > code
> I still don't understand this; a C program with
>    #define POPPLER_VERSION 0.19.1
>    printf ("%s\n", "POPPLER_VERSION");
> will print 'POPPLER_VERSION' and not '0.19.1'.
> 
> > If you really want this change and think it is so much better I think you
> > could at least have sent the patch that implements the change.
> 
> The required change was mentioned in my first mail from Oct 14, 2011,
> a patch is now attached.

Pushed.

Albert

> 
> Regards
> Peter