Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.99999999999999

[Ron Johnson]

On 06/17/2011 09:06 AM, Duncan wrote:
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> FWIW, it shouldn't require them for that.  It'd either be a hard
> dependency, pulled in when pan is installed, or not required, as pan's
> decoding is built-in.  (I haven't looked in awhile, but IIRC it includes
> its own slightly modified copy of IDR which decode library in the
> sources, statically linked.  That's a bit of a no-no as apps are supposed
> to use the system lib for ease of maintenance and security update
> purposes, but the pan-bundled copy is modified for pan's own use, so it
> had to be included.

Can you explain that?  "Shouldn't" pan be modified be modified to use 
the relevant shared libs?

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