Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#41842 closed update (fixed)

Please update libPNG to current version, 1.6.7

Reported by: gallafent Owned by: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.2.1
Keywords: Cc: cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
Port: libpng

Description

At the moment, the version available in MacPort is 1.5.17.

Current version is 1.6.7 according to http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

(although: is there a strong reason to stay back on the 1.5 branch?)

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: ryandesign@… removed
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to ryandesign@…
Status: newassigned

There were problems updating libpng from 1.2 to 1.4 and from 1.4 to 1.5: changes made in those versions of libpng caused other programs to fail to build, so we waited a long time after those versions were released to update the port, in the hopes that other programs would have been updated by then to be compatible.

That doesn't appear to be the case with 1.6. I've been running my main MacPorts installation with 1.6 since it came out and have not encountered any build issues with other ports, so I do intend to update the port without delay. The only difficulty with doing that is the necessity of identifying all ports depending on libpng and increasing their revisions to rebuild them.

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: egall@… added

Cc Me!

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Updated libpng to 1.6.7 in r115018.

Revbumped all the ports depending on it in r115019.

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