Evince libraries evdocument and evview

[Luca Bruno aka Lethalman]

Hello,
libevview and libevdocument haven't been packaged as development libraries.
Conseguently, no bindings in any language have been built for them. I've
realized they were missing since I needed them to render some documents in my
application.

I've worked a bit on packaging them together by creating libevince1 and
libevince-dev (like libgnome-media0). Can I proceed?

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[Didier Roche-3]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88@...> wrote:

Hello,
libevview and libevdocument haven't been packaged as development libraries.
Conseguently, no bindings in any language have been built for them. I've
realized they were missing since I needed them to render some documents in my
application.

I've worked a bit on packaging them together by creating libevince1 and
libevince-dev (like libgnome-media0). Can I proceed?

We already did it in Ubuntu and it has reached the stable release now (9.04) : http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jaunty/evince

IIRC, the diff is not big (mainly, Launchpad integration), so, cherrypicking the split would be not difficult.
If you wish, I can help you with that.

Didier

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 21 mai 2009 à 23:37 +0200, Luca Bruno a écrit :
> libevview and libevdocument haven't been packaged as development libraries.
> Conseguently, no bindings in any language have been built for them. I've
> realized they were missing since I needed them to render some documents in my
> application.
>
> I've worked a bit on packaging them together by creating libevince1 and
> libevince-dev (like libgnome-media0). Can I proceed?

I didn’t think they were needed by other applications, so that’s why the
development libraries are not packaged.

In all cases, you need to check whether they can work with both evince
and evince-gtk. If possible, it might also be interesting to split out
the backends in a separate package so that both evince and evince-gtk
can use the same.

Cheers,
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