Re: [gentoo-science] qtiplot-0.9.6 (and qwt-5.1.0)

["Andrey G. Grozin" <A.G.Grozin@inp.nsk.su>]

On Sat, 17 May 2008, Sbastien Fabbro wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 18:24:35 +0700 (NOVST)
> "Andrey G. Grozin" <A.G.Grozin@inp.nsk.su> wrote:
>> I propose *not* to use an external liborigin in qtiplot. Am I right
>> that liborigin is used only by qtiplot? Then it would be better to
>> get rid of sci-libs/liborigin at all. It seems veru unlikely that
>> anybody else (except qtiplot) will want it. And qtiplot always
>> contains its own, newest and customized source of liborigin. If a
>> uswer cares for Origin compatibility, he will be better off with this
>> version.
> At least sci-visualization/labplot uses liborigin, and someone could
> want to use liborigin for its own use.
> Internal copies are harmful and best avoided. The best solution is
> ususally to work out with upstream to try to remove it.
OK, I'll fix the ebuild to use the external liborigin.

BTW, I've committed qwt-5.1.0 to the main tree.

Andrey
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