libInventor.so.0.0.0: bug or feature?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Feb 14 12:46:57 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:36 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 February 2007 at 09:49, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 09:06 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > 
> > >  De facto, everything is in "keep-alive" maintenance by
> > > > Linux distros keeping their packages going and them occasionally
> > > > mutually harvesting/exchanging their patches and modifications.
> > > > I.e. the de facto upstream are Debian and Fedora (i.e. me).
> > Before somebody feels insulted: Ubuntu also has Inventor, but their
> > modifications are largely identical to Debian.
> > 
> > > And I thank you both for that...
> > > I was actaully pretty impressed by the 219Kb (bzipped) applied
> > > "monster patch" :)
> > The patch looks bigger than it actually is (Uncompressed size: 1.6MB),
> > because it contains _one_ 1.5MB ascii data file ;)
> 
> Have you thought of splitting that off from the patch and including as
> SourceN: ?
Yes, but a diff is simpler for me, because I cut the diffs from a local
cvs and have all mods in my local (non-public) cvs.

I should consider starting a public project based on this code base :-)

Ralf





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