Re: Fwd: Re: Pango portability (or rather the lack of it)

From: Blue Lizard (webmaster@dofty.zzn.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 17:03:23 EDT

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    On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 04:40, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
    > > So you're going to reimplement over a year of debugged work by an i18n
    > > expert and a bunch of contributors with language-specific expertise,
    > > instead of working on fixing up the win32 port, which needs to be done
    > > for GTK itself anyway?
    >
    > Win32 is not the only non-GTK platform we care about there are a least
    > 3 others, 2 behing already supported, the third one being in progress:
    > QNX, BeOS and MacOS X.
    >

    Are there not solaris users without gnome/pango?
    I always liked cde, and few administrators (or, few that I know) are
    gonna wanna install pango stuff for the sake of one word processor.

    (naturally, I intend to offer arguments for and against both sides)

    -MG



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