> Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>> Darrell Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>> libart-lgpl no longer is maintained upstream and needs several
>>>> patches to avoid crashing some apps. The version of libarts provided
>>>> by the Trinity Project includes those patches and is intended to be a
>>>> replacement for any version of libarts currently installed by any
>>>> distro. Build this patched version of libart and replace the stock
>>>> libart installed with the distro.
>>>
>>> Do you have a reference about it no longer being maintained?
>
>> One example of many:
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155472#c4
>
> That's clear enough, thanks.
>
>> And here is a combination of all of the patches:
>> http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/libart-lgpl/diff/?id=150562b89b645c402f1bb837a09f8b84bf6e49ec
>
> Did you create the changes?  If not, where did you find them?  Looking
> at the original source, the code looks very difficult to maintain.  It
> really makes you appreciate C++.
>
No I did not; they were sitting on the libart bugzilla for a long time.  I
merged the ones that seemed to make sense.

While I don't think any of the TDE devs are going to touch the source code
to improve functionality, we can at least act as a central collection
point for patches, bugs reports, etc.  Given the library's age I don't
think much work beyond fixing future compilation errors or segfaults will
be neeed.

Tim