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Info needed #8

Open OlivierSohn opened 6 years ago

OlivierSohn commented 6 years ago

(Edited after manually looking in the dylib for function names)

Hello,

It seems that the functions from the commit https://github.com/ulrichard/ftgl/commit/92d175e86b36099bb66c0419447f797f9daf6461 are not present in the ftgl 2.1.3 library that was installed by brew install ftgl on my mac.

What should I do to install this version? Is it possible to merge the changes of this fork back to the main repository and make a new release?

ulrichard commented 6 years ago

Hi Olivier, yes, the officially released and packaged version of ftgl is very old. I initially created this fork just to make my small extensions public. But since it seems to be the first one on GitHub, people tend to assume it is somehow official. As far as I know the official version is still on sourceforge. But it seems to be unmaintained. I merged a pull request today from somebody who fixed some bugs that were reported in debian. I hope somebody will assume responsibility for ftgl, as I think I'm not the right guy for this. The last time I used the library was a couple of years ago. I don't know how packaging works for brew, but I assume it is also based on official releases of the upstream packages.

OlivierSohn commented 6 years ago

Hello Richard, Thanks for the info, I don't know how to contact people on sourceforge, but yes it would be nice if the maintainers of ftgl would integrate the changes of your fork. Sourceforge doesn't seem to be as easy as github wrt contacting people!

OlivierSohn commented 6 years ago

btw I saw there are 2 emails in the README, maybe they are the maintainers?

frankheckenbach commented 6 years ago

btw I saw there are 2 emails in the README, maybe they are the maintainers?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760571;msg=10 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760571;msg=15

has 4 addresses (1 identical to the README) for probably the same two original authors (plus Manuel, the Debian maintainer).

(They should have got my mail yesterday, but you might want to contact them directly.)