[Bug 206814] Review Request: hugin - Frontend for Panorama Tools, similar to PTAssembler, PTGui or Open for Windows

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Summary: Review Request: hugin - Frontend for Panorama Tools, similar to PTAssembler, PTGui or Open for Windows


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206814





------- Additional Comments From jspaleta at gmail.com  2007-02-22 13:21 EST -------
As one of those users... I'm KEEN on getting this in.

Is the issue of the vigra library really a blocker?  The 'thou shall not build
statically' rule has room for exceptions and its not as strict as the 'do not
ship static libraries for use by others' rule.

Or to ask it another way... how is this case different from what is done with
the applications shipped in the netcdf package, which build statically against
netcdf libraries...until the next upstream release is available which will make
it possible to build dynamically?  There is already precedent in the software
repository for statically linking against libraries, as special cases. 

Has upstream for the vigra library reject the modifications? Or is this strictly
a matter of slow development timescales for the vigra library project to
incorporate changes. If there is a way forward with upstream, so that we can
link dynamically in a future version, I don't see this a blocker.  But if the
upstream project has rejected the modifications, then the library will need to
be forked into a seperate project and shipped as a dynamic library in the hugin
package.  If we are going to special case this, then we need to have some
confidence that the issue will become irrelevant as part of forseeable upstream
development. Again I refer to the netcdf package as an example, and the
development work being done to on netcdf v4 which should fix the special case
static linking that the netcdf v3 package has to do.

Have has this been taken to the extras or maintainers list for a larger
discussion, concerning this can be considered a special case allowance?

-jef

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