Re: ITP: xfs-xtt
- To: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <ishikawa@linux.or.jp>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@debian.or.jp, xfstt@packages.debian.org
- Subject: Re: ITP: xfs-xtt
- From: "Stephen J. Carpenter" <sjc@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:18:42 -0500
- Message-id: <19991117101842.A29008@lenny.mgh.harvard.edu>
- Mail-followup-to: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <ishikawa@linux.or.jp>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@debian.or.jp, xfstt@packages.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <19991117143442.A24306@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>; from Gregor Hoffleit on Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:34:42PM +0100
- References: <19991105014357O.ishikawa@linux.or.jp> <19991117143442.A24306@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:34:42PM +0100, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> I wonder how xfs-xtt compares to the existing xfstt package. Is there a
> reason that it does not conflict with xfstt ? xfstt seems to run alongside
> with xfs, while xfs-xtt replaces xfs. Any advantages/disadvantages of the
> one or the other method ?
I do not know enough about xfs-xtt to comment on it. In fact...this is the
first I have known of its existance.
> If we really have both packages in the archive, it would be nice if they
> could point out their pros and cons compared to the competing package in
> their README.Debian's.
I supose it would be. The main difference I see is that xfs-xtt is probably
a complete x font server AND truetype font server...which means it can
serve normal X fonts and render truetypes and serve them up.
xfstt ONLY does the second part of that. Thus xfstt is not an xfs replacement.
Reminds me... I need to release xfstt 1.1 since 1.0 had some um...stupid bugs.
(oops....oh well...ive broken worst :) )
-Steve
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