From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 17:59:03 EDT
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 17:36, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason this should not be committed to HEAD Real Soon Now?
>
> I can think of one or 12 reasons off the top of my head, but the first
> one that jumps to mind is that we decided to use Pango and Freetype to
> do our font dirty-work. Freetype is a *very* high quality XP solution.
> XFS and friends actually use freetype2 to do the majority of the work
> for them. Sure, parts of Cuenca's patch should be applied regardless
> (eg. spurious redraw code in the formatting engine), but this wasn't the
> direction we were going for in HEAD. At least not to the best of my
> knowledge.It's certainly not the direction I want HEAD to take. Feel
> free too disagree.
>
Now I'll shut up until I've actually reviewed Joaquin's code. I thought he
was doing a lot of what we needed for HEAD anyway. Including the
fontconfig and Freetype drawing.
Cheers
Martin
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