[Fontconfig] WINDOWSTEMPDIR_FONTCONFIG_CACHE

[Raimund Steger]

LRN wrote:
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> What was the rationale behind putting fontconfig cache into temporary
> directory?

WINDOWSTEMPDIR_FONTCONFIG_CACHE is only one possible value (aside from a 
real path) for <cachedir> elements on Win32. Current fontconfig also 
supports LOCAL_APPDATA_FONTCONFIG_CACHE; see 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig/3937.

> On *nix it resides in /var/cache/fontconfig.

On Unix, users have cache directories too, as they can use their own 
fonts and/or fontconfig versions.

System-wide fontconfig installations are not really widely used on 
Windows although a sysadmin could certainly provide such a thing (maybe 
using a custom sysconfdir or fontconfig's feature to load its 
configuration from location relative to the DLL on Windows).

> no decent package manager, and i don't think that applications keep
> track of fonts. Which means that it's important to not to lose fontcache.

fontconfig updates the cache automatically, applications should not need 
to do anything.


Raimund

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