[ft-devel] FreeType issues

2006-01-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Steve, I've read your very interesting mail at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html What's your recommendation in the light of http://freetype.org/freetype2/freetype-2.2.0.html ? Werner ___ Freetype-devel

Re: [ft-devel] web page for the forthcoming 2.2.0 release

2006-01-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Perhaps we shall *rename* the library to, say, `libft2', instead of `libfreetype', together with a new API prefix `FT2_' instead of `FT_'. This would avoid the whole mess. Or even `libft3' and `FT3_' ... Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing

Re: [ft-devel] web page for the forthcoming 2.2.0 release

2006-01-22 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Werner LEMBERG wrote: What kind of problems would the version bump cause? Indirect dependencies. That's exactly what's described in this section: http://plan99.net/autopackage/Linux_Problems#elf Are we not bumping versions simply to force all applications to fix their code rather

[ft-devel] Re: FreeType issues

2006-01-22 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Werner, On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:12:46AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I've read your very interesting mail at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html What's your recommendation in the light of http://freetype.org/freetype2/freetype-2.2.0.html Thanks

[ft-devel] patch requested for freetype2/internal header usage (using font_bbox)

2006-01-22 Thread Drew Parsons
Dear FreeType developers, I am involved with Xprint, an X11 extension enabling printing using the X protocol [1]. Xprint uses FreeType2, but unfortunately its postscript driver uses the internal freetype headers. You've written very clearly [2] that this should not be done, and I would to take

Re: [ft-devel] web page for the forthcoming 2.2.0 release

2006-01-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Indirect dependencies. That's exactly what's described in this section: http://plan99.net/autopackage/Linux_Problems#elf Yes. Note that the world is still spinning inspite of the horror scenario painted there :-) I can't think of many programs which actively use FreeType functions on