[cairo] cairomm rpms for Fedora Core 4

[Rick L Vinyard Jr]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 23:39 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 12:35 -0700, Rick L Vinyard Jr wrote:
> [snip]
> > I filed a bug-report to get cairomm added to Fedora Extras.
> 
> Excellent. Many thanks. Do you have a bug number or URL?
> 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182463

> > I've found that it's much easier to have the .spec generated by autoconf
> > (much like a .pc file)
> 
> If you like, but I prefer not to do these build file changes in CVS,
> because I prefer not to put .spec files in cvs or tarballs, because 
> a) They are never maintained properly, and the source code maintainer
> gets the blame for that.

True; of course I've been using the .spec.in from the perspective that
I'm both the maintainer and packager.

> b) It's never clear what distro they or for, or what version of the
> distro they are for.

The one I'm currently running, of course. :)

I know what you mean. That's why I figured I'd offer it first before
filing a bug with the patch.

In my case, the code I've released is something that I need, and with
several different machines I found that it was easier to write a .spec
than it was to install the tarballs.

Eventually maintaining the .specs got annoying so I automated as much of
it as I could in the form of the .spec.in.

But I had an old OpenGL C++ canvas library that I rewrote (at least some
of the major parts so far) to use cairo for drawing operations and
posted it on SourceForge (http://libpapyrus.sourceforge.net/) in case
someone else might find it useful.

When Jonathan and yourself started moving cairomm along I moved the
canvas library over to use cairomm, and just used the generic .spec.in
to hack up a cairomm .spec that seems to work...