Re: Xwin and freetype...

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Daniel Blueman wrote:

> Most users may not know why their anti-aliased fonts look ugly.
>
> The problem is that the XFree86 4.x sources contain quite an old version of
> libfreetype, causing this. Yuk!
>
> To override it, install the current freetype 2.1.4 libraries in /usr/lib,
> which usually get searched before the /usr/X11R6/lib directory; fonts in apps
> that use freetype (eg Gnome 2 + KDE 3) look *far* clearer and legible when
> much smaller!
>
> Anyone have any idea how hard it is to get freetype into the cygwin distro
> tree?
>
> Dna

<http://cygwin.com/setup.html>.

Normally, you'd propose the ITP on <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>, and go
from there (it's a packaging and functionality review process, plus
voting).  However, your package is tied to XFree86, so, according to
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00043.html>, it should be
approved (voted for?) on this list (<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>).
I'm sure people on cygwin-apps will review the packaging anyway if you
submit the ITP there.
	Igor
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