Re: about the meson build systel

2020-08-25 Thread Keith Packard
Werner LEMBERG writes: >>> BTW, how well does meson support cross compilation? >> >> it does support cross-compilation a lot better than cmake >> on Windows (though compilation fails because of mmap) : > > Thanks for checking. I've done some experimentation with 'picolibc', which uses meson for

Re: Gitlab Migration Progress

2020-08-24 Thread Keith Packard
Werner LEMBERG writes: > and I couldn't find a commercial feature that would be necessary for > us. Am I missing something? People at the Gnome foundation worked with gitlab to add enough features to the free version to make Gnome developers happy. Seems to be working fine for freedesktop devel

Re: Gitlab Migration Progress

2020-08-24 Thread Keith Packard
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> It is not about UI but about community. To me, >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org feels like the right community to >> move in. Thanks to Alan for the invitation. The other two >> communities are too crowded and too commercial. > > Mhmm, I think gitlab is a good compro

Re: Build system considerations

2020-04-30 Thread Keith Packard
David Turner writes: > for ten different Unix-like system is a portability nightmare. > On the other hand, building them for a standard Linux distribution, or OS > X, is a well known problem, so we may consider keeping autotools/libtool as > an escape hatch for esoteric systems that still exist,

Re: [Freetype-devel] Re: Build system considerations

2020-04-29 Thread Keith Packard
suzuki toshiya writes: > Is there any recommended alternative? Or, should we accept > the "modern" situation where we have to execute twice to build > shared and static libraries? X and Mesa have switched to Meson, and I've used it in a couple of other projects (including picolibc). On POSIX sys

Re: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-23 Thread Keith Packard
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 19:25 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Well, a direct import is trivial; however, it would be beneficial to > walk over, say, the last 1000 to 2000 commits so that all get a nice > one-line title. My 'parsecvs' tool will probably handle freetype's CVS repository fairly well. I

[ft-devel] Fonts with partial-coverage bitmap strikes

2007-10-30 Thread Keith Packard
I'd like to be able to know when Freetype will use a strike size for an FT_Face after the size has been specified. This will let me select monochrome rendering for any glyphs which don't happen to have bitmaps in the strike. Right now, I've coded up a fairly ugly hack which attempts to guess when