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On Sunday 23 January 2005 00:00, Owen Taylor wrote:
> I don't think anybody is particularly tied to the current implementation
> (it seems to work pretty well, but...) Command line and file format
> compatibility is much more important.
I agree.  This was our goal of the first release here, to make sure we are=
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100% compat with the current cmdline and file format.

Second stage will be to provide the "lint" application for validating pc=20
files, and to provide more robust win32 support.

Third stage will be to start exposing the parts of the library needed to ma=
ke=20
tools like kde-config use pkg-conf metadata.  This should drive the design=
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for the public API to embed and extend pkg-conf.  NOTE: by extend we are no=
t=20
allowing or promoting the extension of the file format itself.  We are just=
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allowing *-conf tools to extend what is there with dynamic data via the=20
current rules of variable expansion in pkg-conf. =20

=46ourth and beyond stages will be integration into MSVC, XCode, QMake and =
other=20
build tools beyond autotools.  =20

The main goal though over the course of all of these stages is to solidify =
and=20
document the current .pc format as a standard for this metadata and to ensu=
re=20
it can be reused in other projects.

Cheers
	-ian reinhart geiser
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