Inkscape

Management of embedded libraries

Registered by Alex Valavanis on 2015-04-28

Inkscape currently contains embedded code from a number of libraries. This is non-ideal since it introduces a maintenance burden, it makes it harder for us to obtain patches and security fixes from the library developers and can introduce forward-compatibility problems. This blueprint seeks to improve our usage of these libraries.

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Blueprint information

Status:: Started

Approver:: None

Priority:: Undefined

Drafter:: Alex Valavanis

Direction:: Needs approval

Assignee:: None

Definition:: Review

Series goal:: None

Implementation:: Slow progress

Milestone target:: None

Started by: Alex Valavanis on 2015-04-28

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Related bugs

Bug #648246: Get rid of embedded copy of libcroco	Triaged
Bug #792115: Build against external libgdl	Fix Released
Bug #1094771: Drop internal copy of cxxtest	Fix Released
Bug #1155947: Allow building against external lib2geom	Triaged
Bug #1156664: Compile against external libpotrace	Fix Released

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