Re: TrueType and xfs
17.02.2000 pisze Branden Robinson (branden@ecn.purdue.edu):
> > Well, as far as I know from Juliusz, it is not the case for a long
> > time... [yet another reason why it would be better to include this
> > patch is the fact, that the same mechanism would be used in XFree
> > 4.x xfs; as these patches are incorporated in 3.9x series]
> Then we'll just have to wait for 4.0.
How long? Do you plan to make an update for (in this moment probably)
stable potato?
> People submitting huge patches like this that are feature
> enhancements (as opposed to bug fixes) get one chance to get it
> right.
...not so huge, if we are referring to the XFree source size ;-)
> Whoever handed me these patches last time didn't.
> It is also very important to me to support all of Debian's
> architectures on as equal a footing a possible. If a patch works for
> i386 but breaks compilation for other arches, it's out. I also don't
> want non-hardware specific patches that aren't clean and portable.
> (For instance, a font rasterizer should work everywhere and if it has
> endianness or 64-bit issues, that is the fault of the programmer --
> it's not because other arches *can't* use it even in theory. The
> situation is, of course, different when you're dealing with bus types
> that are on some architectures but not others, and so forth.)
I really *do* understand. But (as far as I know) there's no such
problem with newer versions of this patch (OTOH the xfsft is not
developed on i386 architecture). I'll forward your message to JEC, for
more detailed answer.
regards,
Jubal
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