I am sponsoring this fasttrack for Stuart Kreitman of the X team.
It removes unmaintained programs for manipulating a font format
that has been obsolete since the X11R5 release in 1991.
The timeout is set to Tuesday, June 23. The release binding is
Patch for EOF announcement, Minor for actual removal.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI
This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems
1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
EOF of bdftosnf and showsnf
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Stuart Kreitman
1.3 Date of This Document:
16 June, 2009
4. Technical Description
bdftosnf converts Bitmap Data Format font files to Server Natural
Format (SNF) Font files.
showsnf displays contents of SNF files.
I dug up a few references of its history:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-2011/6i60mct6n?a=view:
"SNF is an older font file format that is replaced by the Portable Compiled
Format (PFC). PCF is the preferred format for font files and one can use
bdftopcf(1) to convert a BDF font file to a PCF font file.
http://iasonline.com:457/cgi-bin/man/man?bdftosnf+X:
"bdftosnf has been replaced by bdftopcf in the X11R5 release; SNF files
are only used for backwards compatibility"
With the EOF of Xsun it is time to drop these utilities.
This case announces the EOF of, and removes, the bdftosnf and showsnf
utilities and documentation from Solaris Nevada and OpenSolaris.
Exported Interfaces:
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/usr/openwin/bin/bdftosnf Obsolete (SUNWxwopt)
/usr/openwin/bin/showsnf Obsolete (SUNWxwopt)
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
X Consolidation / Desktop C-Team
6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
