Re: gdk-pixbuf now standalone again

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 01:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> Following some recent irc discussions, I have done the necessary work
>> to split out gdk-pixbuf as a standalone module again. This is how it
>> started out, in the distant past, before it spent most of the GTK+ 2.x
>> era inside GTK+. The main reason for splitting it out again are that
>> we avoid breaking the gdk-pixbuf ABI, which makes live easier for
>> modules like librsvg or clutter, which use gdk-pixbuf as an image
>> loader, but don't have other GTK+ dependencies.
>>
>> The gdk-pixbuf sources can now be found here:
>>
>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf
>>
>> I have just done a gdk-pixbuf-2.21.3 release, and GTK+ 2.22/2.90
>> releases depending on an external gdk-pixbuf will follow soon.
>
> Does this mean we'll have to undo the work on pixbuf loaders?

It means that there is no need anymore to install pixbuf loaders twice.
So the librsvg split can be undone, yes.