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

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 23:58:07 EDT

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     --- Blue Lizard <webmaster@dofty.zzn.com> wrote: > 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.

    You don't need Gnome for Pango. Those people are
    free to install a monolingual word processor.

    Andrew Dunbar.

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

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