At 7:08 PM -0500 11/16/02, Alexander Strange wrote:
We don't really have to worry about this until XFree86 4.3, but...*Boggle* You want to package a non-standard version of fontconfig so you can change the default font path? <exaggeration>This is similar to packaging your own version of tcsh so you can put /sw/bin in the default path.</exaggeration> There are many ways to configure the default font path at runtime. You should use one of them.
* XFree86 will be using the Fontconfig library. We should package our own version of this, patch it to recognize /sw/lib/X11/fonts, and tell XFree86 to build with it.
* We may want to make our freetype2 build with ftmac support (won't work on darwin) and hinting (if not already enabled), and have XFree86 use it too (This is also a good example of how variants would be useful).This is something that we'll figure out before the 4.3.0 release. I've mentioned this before, but a goal of the XFree86 and Fink projects should be that Fink should have to carry zero diffs to XFree86 forward after 4.3.0. Fink developers are doing good stuff and where there are diffs I strongly encourage people to push patches upstream. (Either formally at the XonX patch page or informally to me.) This is a good example of something that needs work and should be fixed properly for everyone in the mainline.
* Our font package currently use 'ttfmkfontdir'. They should be switched over to using 'mkfontscale'.True.
--Torrey
XFree86: "Saving the world one pixel at a time."
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