From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 06:41:12 EDT
Hi Martin,
> > My main reason for this suggestion is that it will take a while
> > before we have a 2.0 release with the Pango stuff; things are moving
> > along slower than I have been hoping.
>
> Is this because the work is much harder than you thought or because
> you haven't had the time to work on it?
I have had less time recently for this than I expected, but also Dom
made some changes to HEAD in preparation for the Gtk2 work that
made it impossible for me to compile the Pango stuff (problems with
mixing glib1 and glib2), and I have not got gtk2 installed yet to work
on the gtk2 branch instead. So I am eagerly awaiting the gtk2 stuff
going to HEAD, then I will get myself gtk2 and resume the Pango
work.
> Hmmm this will be a pain. How much work will be done on the XP parts
> of pango in within the next few months?
>
> Maybe it would be better to freeze XP related pango developement until
> after 1.2? I guess it depends on your assessment of how long before
> pango itself is ready for a prime time XP environment.
I am planing to keep working on it; I do not mind it remaining within
#ifdef WITH_PANGO for the foreseable future, as long as care is
taken that any generic layout fixes are done in the Pango sections
as well as much as possible.
From the XP point of view the bigest issue is getting Pango/Glib2
available on the non-*nix platforms, and as no-one seems to be
looking into this, it could take years :-(.
Tomas
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