About two weeks ago, a new tool was added to the configure project [1]: pkg-config [2], a re-implementation of the popular program of the same name [3]. A number of political reasons have motivated this decision, like the current circular dependency of pkg-config on glib [4].

A new developer is helping in this task: bapt [5], who is already a FreeBSD developer [6] and of pkgng fame [7]. This also prompted the decision to publish pkg-config under a simplified BSD license, unlike most of the DeforaOS project at the moment.

More information about the people involved in DeforaOS is found here [8].

Many thanks to bapt for his contributions!

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/project/16/configure
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/project/browse/16?file=/tools/pkg-config.c,v
[3] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config
[4] http://developer.gnome.org/glib/
[5] http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/
[6] http://www.freebsd.org/
[7] http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng
[8] http://people.defora.org/