SPAM-HIGH.Re: [Gllug] [OT] Appreciation

[Russell Howe]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:22:00PM +0000, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On 20/12/06, Russell Howe <rhowe at siksai.co.uk> wrote:
> >The problem there is often that bleeding edge software often requires a
> >bleeding edge platform to build & run on, so you either end up
> >installing a whole raft of bleeding edge libraries (and perhaps
> >compilers).
> 
> This is less so when you are compiling things yourself.  That is, if
> you compile a cvs version of an application, it should be using
> autotools to detect how it needs to talk to your libraries.

True, but if you've not got bleeding edge versions of libraries
installed, you often end up with the bleeding edge features disabled, as
autotools can't then find the relevant functionality and so didn't define
the HAVE_FOO macros.

I'm thinking of things like development versions of GTK, or libgoffice,
or ffmpeg, etc.. the list is of course boundless

-- 
Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
rhowe at siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?
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