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Re: [RFC]: Breaking out fontconfig and freetype into seperate packages
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 21:27:10 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFC]: Breaking out fontconfig and freetype into seperate packages
- References: <bgf2dm$qr5$1@main.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Nicholas,
Can you explain to me what fontconfig and freetype2 are, specifically?
Do they consist of a couple libraries and some executables?
How many files are involved in a package that contains them?
Are any of their libraries linked to from within the standard XFree86
distribution?
The reason I ask these questions is that I am all for splitting out
fontconfig and freetype2, as long as I can cleanly exclude them from the
packaging scripts and if I don't have to do too much recompiling when
new fontconfig/freetype2 packages are released.
Answer those questions and we can think about it.
Harold
Nicholas Wourms wrote:
Harold,
Would you be against having someone else maintain the freetype2 &
fontconfig packages external of XFree86 sources? There are a couple of
reasons for wanting this:
1)Freetype & fontconfig aren't necessarily X libraries and they don't
specifically require X. Some non-X packages are starting to use it, and
others will follow in the future. Also, it is possible that one could
link them to a hybrid w32api/cygwin gui application.
2)XFree86 is notorious for lagging behind the current releases,
especially in respect to fontconfig.
3)Most all of the major linux vendors do this, and have been doing it
for quite some time now.
4)It means less work and less to download each time there's an update to
some other XFree86 library or binary.
I've been tracking current sources and have working packaging scripts
for both. If you are interested, I'd be willing to do an ITP in
cygwin-apps, having them target the /usr prefix as opposed to /usr/X11R6.
Also, I'd like to do an ITP for ttmkfdir, but I'll hold off on that
until we get this request squared away.
Cheers,
Nicholas