On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:05:24PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > 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),
The bdf fonts use unicode. > changes in font formats (use the same > format as everyone else if you want to tap in the common maintenance > pool), You plan to change bdf/pcf? > changes in hardware capabilities (hardware pixel density is not > a physical constant and any change there invalidates the existing pool > of bitmap fonts). Bitmaps don't change. A 12pt bitmap font at 100dpi is a 8pt font at 150dpi and a 6pt at 200dpi. > 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. Looking at the git changelog for adobe-100dpi you're way overstating the number of changes. OG. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg