Re: [debs] Emacs + XFT
Il giorno mer, 25/01/2006 alle 22.00 +0100, Romain Francoise ha scritto:
> (Please don't CC me on Debian lists, and don't top-post; thanks.)
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> Marco Cabizza <mc@newglobal.it> writes:
>
> > Romain, are there any plans to merge the XFT_JHD_BRANCH to some
> > emacs-snapshot-*, perhaps in experimental?
>
> None at all. The Xft code will probably be entirely rewritten after the
> 22.1 release, and I don't merge feature branches in emacs-snapshot
> (otherwise I'd have to do it for multi-tty, tiling, etc).
>
> > It's not that stable by now, but it could be a good idea (after all
> > emacs was one of the few 'common' program that had no gtk2 ui and that
> > was not xft-rendered yet..).
>
> There's no bold, it changes the default font selection, it crashes...
>
> If people want the feature that badly, they can just compile their own
> version from CVS, or use third-party packages; I'm not willing to deal
> with it. There's a significant gap between "this branch works for me"
> and "this branch is suitable for the 100+ users of emacs-snapshot in
> Debian and Ubuntu". And having different versions of emacs-snapshot in
> unstable and experimental isn't an option.
>
> Sorry to disappoint you,
>
I'm not disappointed at all, I just don't need some features (like
bolding) and even if sometimes it crashes I still can put up with it :)
(after all they're becoming less and less frequent).
I agree with that choice :)
~marco
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