Re: Bug#638760: Removal of grace, pygrace and expeyes
On 23/03/2014 01:50, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 20:07 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Drew Parsons wrote:
>>> Grace is one of the most useful packages in the entire archive.
>>>
>>> I am not aware of anything other package that provides the same degree
>>> of functionality.
>>>
>>> Removing it is not a good idea.
>> That can be fixed by anyone willing to spend the time to update it to
>> use freetype.
>>
>> Removing the package will likely provide an incentive for someone
>> sufficiently skilled and interested to do that, and it will eventually
>> be back.
>
> At the core of it, lib/canvas/t1fonts.c would need to be replaced, and
> Canvas in include/grace/canvasP.h and various client code points would
> need to be updated to match.
>
> Sounds like a worthy candidate for the Google Summer of Code.
>
Too late for the GSoC (deadline for students was last Friday) and I
don't think we would have
accepted this as a project.
Sylvestre
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