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X11Amp v0.9 Source Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-about-time dept.

Max Karpiak writes "The source to X11Amp's new (long awaited) version is available at the main homepage, and should hopefully propagate out the to the US site soon as well. Go get it. It's cool." Mine's making on the next desktop.

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  1. Okay, this is annoying. by dangermouse · · Score: 2
    Would you people stop coding every damn thing with experimental/developmental libraries? There's a reason it's called being "bleeding edge".

    I use x11amp 0.7, because I have found nothing particularly better for X. (I'm a pretty big fan of nice GUIs, if I'm gonna have a GUI.) I was going to install 0.9a essentially for the double-size option.

    But wow, check out the libraries I'd need:
    • glib 1.1.14
    • gtk+ 1.1.14
    • imlib 1.9.2
    • linuxthreads 0.71
    • gnu gettext 0.10
    For imlib, I'd need:
    • giflib 3.0-2
    • libungif 3.0
    • libpng 1.0.1
    • zlib 1.1.2
    • jpegsrc 6b
    • ImageMagick 4.0.5


    See a trend? Why do people write so much software that compiles only against developmental/experimental libraries?

    Not to mention the stuff that the G-crowd (and E-flock) consider standard, but nobody else has or uses....

    Yeah, these new libs (especially gtk) tend to have some neato-burrito whiz-bang wowie-zowie features, but can't we wait til they're something resembling stable? Isn't that why there're separate "stable" and "development" versions?