Re: Browser Rendering Uncovered

["Derek Broughton" <derek_broughton@hotmail.com>]

From: "Michael Schuerig" <schuerig@acm.org>

> On Monday 28 October 2002 14:15, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > So I ask again, "Is Debian really delivering a FreeType package
> > incapable of supporting anti-aliasing?" - which is what the original
> > poster seemed to believe was the situation.  I don't plan to infringe
> > any patents and, if the bytecode interpreter is necessary for AA,
> > I'll drop FreeType. If antialiasing works even without the
> > interpreter, then the original poster can't have been right that he
> > needed to compile FreeType from source.
>
> The latest entry for "byte" in
> /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/changelog.Debian says:
>
> freetype (2.0.2.20010514-1) unstable; urgency=low
> [...]
>   * [ftoption.h]: #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
>
>  -- Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>  Tue, 15 May 2001 16:49:26 -0600
>
> In the source it's there, too.

And the relevance of this is what?  You're right that that's the latest mention
of the bytecode interpreter - at least to my installed version  - but it doesn's
even hint at the answer to my question.