[PATCH] mscms: Use lcms2, when available

[Scott Ritchie]

On 05/09/2013 01:37 PM, Hans Leidekker wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 18:56 +0200, wine.dev at web.de wrote:
>> Hi Hans.
>>
>>>> lcms2 was released on 8. May 2010 
>>>> lcms v1 is on the way to be phased out in the newest 
>>>> distribution versions.
>>
>>> Are there any distributions that have released without v1?
>>
>> I don't know, but Ubuntu has a bug for replacing lcms v1.
>>
>> There is no reason, that Wine is the last app, which depends on lcms v1.
> 
> For most apps it will be a matter of adding a configure check for lcms2
> and then recompiling. This is not the case for Wine as you have pointed out.
> 
> At this point there's probably still a substantial number of users on
> distributions that don't include lcms2, and trying to support both doesn't
> make the source any prettier.
> 
> So it doesn't seem unreasonable to wait a little longer.
> 

On the Ubuntu side, all supported versions have liblcms2.

As far as source prettiness goes, it will be much easier to manage the
transition as a distribution if we can know that Wine is ready rather
than waiting on others to act (who in turn may be doing the same thing).

Thanks,
Scott