Re: [ft-devel] FreeType patches to support amalgamation

2012-02-20 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
To be honest, I am perplexed by this amalgamation exercise. All of this apparently needed because some obscure in-house tool does not know how to resolve the name conflicts. Teach the damn tool how to resolve the name conflicts by adding prefixes or suffixes! Why do you butcher perfectly legal

Re: [ft-devel] FreeType patches to support amalgamation

2012-02-20 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
You again manage to present this as a legitimate goal :) It is your tool that breaks the code :) You are not fooling me here. Again, I'll say that this is just such a bizarre objective that you HAVE TO justify this and tell which platform on Earth needs it. Remember it has to be a platform which

Re: [ft-devel] FreeType patches to support amalgamation

2012-02-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
To be honest, I am perplexed by this amalgamation exercise. All of this apparently needed because some obscure in-house tool does not know how to resolve the name conflicts. I don't think so. Teach the damn tool how to resolve the name conflicts by adding prefixes or suffixes! ...

Re: [ft-devel] FreeType patches to support amalgamation

2012-02-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Again, I'll say that this is just such a bizarre objective that you HAVE TO justify this and tell which platform on Earth needs it. ??? It's not related to a specific platform at all. It's a matter of an easy way to distribute the FreeType code with a very few number of files. Remember it

Re: [ft-devel] FreeType patches to support amalgamation

2012-02-20 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: Again, I'll say that this is just such a bizarre objective that you HAVE TO justify this and tell which platform on Earth needs it. ???  It's not related to a specific platform at all.  It's a matter of an easy way to