Is the Freetype bytecode interpreter on or off?

2004-09-09 Thread Peter Constantinidis
Hi, I've been doing searches on the web and this mailing list and I cannot find any answers regarding this. I don't anti-alias my fonts, which is why in my case having the bytecode interpreter on would be a good idea. Thanks for any answer in regards to how Debian does it. BTW, I know the

xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 is too long a filename

2004-05-11 Thread Peter Constantinidis
Hi, I was poking around at: http://www.distrowatch.com/debian I see that due to the length, it trunctuates after the '1' meaning Distrowatch will never be able to report the SID revision unless the name is shortened, or distrowatch's columns are widened. So here's my proposal. Since we know

Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Constantinidis
Hi Branden, In your posting about the 4.3 upload you said you welcomed feedback so I thought I'd drop in my 2 cents from the perspective of an outsider that is contemplating installing Debian in the near future. It was my understanding that the way Sid-Testing-Stable can work, is to visualize it

possible font bug in 4.3

2003-11-18 Thread Peter Constantinidis
I was surfing some font webpages and I came across this snippet of text: Make sure you are not using the freetype version included in XFree86 4.3, as it has bugs that significantly degrade most fonts, including Vera. if you build XFree86 4.3 from source yourself, you may have installed this

Xfree86 4.4 release dates

2003-10-20 Thread Peter Constantinidis
I went by the XFree webpage this evening and looked at the release plans. It states: The next full release of XFree86 will be 4.4.0. The schedule for this release is: Feature freeze: 15 October 2003. Code freeze: 28 November 2003. Release date: 15 December 2003. Only 5 more weeks to code