Le Lun 1 décembre 2008 13:44, Olivier Galibert a écrit : > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:40:57PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> As usual, people who care about something are free to maintain it in >> good shape, since this is how free software works. > > What is there to maintain, exactly?
Fonts are not generated out of thin hair and they need to be updated to keep up with the environment. Environment changes can be changes in encoding standards (unicode is still evolving and even low-level hardware stuff such as USB identifiers uses unicode), changes in font formats (use the same format as everyone else if you want to tap in the common maintenance pool), changes in hardware capabilities (hardware pixel density is not a physical constant and any change there invalidates the existing pool of bitmap fonts). If you think there's nothing to maintain don't complain if maintenance is not done and things break in a few years. Fonts require maintenance just like every other part of the software stack. -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg