[scribus-dev] working with PoDoFo Trunk

[Craig Ringer]

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 01:27 +0200, Pierre Marchand wrote:
> As you may know, PoDoFo’s moving fast these times, so fast that half the times 
> I need to change something here to get Scribus builds against PoDoFo’s Trunk. 
> The problem is pdf_long has been introduced without any version increment, but 
> at least it was a #define -- was ugly but it allowed to check its presence--, 

The introduction of pdf_long was IMO a mistake in the first place.  It
was done as part of a patchset dom applied from a VC6 user (!) who
hacked in 64-bit support. Hacked being the operative word as far as I'm
concerned. If I'd realised at the time I would've protested. I Dom is
perhaps a bit quick to apply patches, partly because neither he nor I
have much time to work on PoDoFo. I'd prefer to see it move slowly than
backwards, but it's not always obvious at first when a patch is actively
harmful.

There's a bit more upheaval to come I'm afraid as I try to get that
cleaned up and generally get the integer type situation to a vaguely
sane point. I'm done with the podofo_config.h change and
PdfDefinesPrivate / PdfCompilerCompat work, though, unless there's
something else you'd like to see change there.

-- 
Craig Ringer