If you get it to the point where I just drop patches onto freetype, fontconfig, and cairo and maybe setup some configure args, I'll get it into 1.7.9_beta1 which I'll release shortly after 2.7.8 goes out (which I'm hoping for later this month).
Sent from my iPhone... > On Oct 13, 2015, at 10:13, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tuesday October 13 2015 09:35:13 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote: >> >> No. I sent you an email back in February asking for some details but never >> heard back and then it just slipped my mind. Most of the details I think >> are burried in https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44148, so I'll look there. >> It would be nice if you could update that ticket with anything that has >> changed in the past 8 months (rebase on newer versions, etc). > > Oops, something must have gone wrong there ... > I'll see about updating the macports ticket (should I give that priority over > other things on my plate?); given the lack about enthusiasm there I had given > up on that. > You can already have a peek here: > https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/tree/master/print/freetype > https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/tree/master/graphics/fontconfig > https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/tree/master/graphics/cairo > > Those are up to date. As you can imagine the logic of getting these patches > into MacPorts is a bit more complicated than simply incorporating them into > something that's distributed as a binary installer. > > Also reminds me that I haven't seen any Infinality updates announced via the > usual channels. > >> Why have the infinality patches not yet been merged into upstream? Is there >> some resistance by upstream to taking the changes? > > A large part of the original patches has been merged at some point, I don't > know why the rest hasn't been. There are no legal issues for regular desktop > use that I'm aware of, but there may be other Freetype applications where > those remaining patches do represent some kind of problem. > > Cheers, > René _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
