[Xorg] CVS HEAD -- ftfuncs.c:931: error: structure has no membernamed `find_sbit_image'

[Roland Mainz]

Eric Anholt wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 04:04, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 20:49 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > > >
> > > > "Things slow down (a lot) for some fonts when used as core fonts" is
> > > > *far* better than "The build fails for almost all of our users."
> > > > Simply saying, "Use 2.1.8 if you want fast CJKV core fonts" seems
> > > > pretty simple to me.
> > >
> > > Seconded, FWIW.
> >
> > So you think it's acceptable to slap the users in asia into the face or
> > what ? Those users get a font loading performance which is *NOT*
> > acceptable if that code gets removed again.
> 
> No.  We tell them that sorry, the previous code mistakenly used private
> interfaces for an optimization, and we had to stop.

There was no "WE". There was only ONE person who started the rants. The
same person who started this thread again... again less than 24h before
the freeze. 
Keith Packard: Why are _you_ always coming up with such kind of
"problems" in the last minute ?

> If they want to use
> the optimization, simply update their system freetype to 2.1.8 and
> recompile and bam, everything works.    Remember, that's what you're
> telling every single user to do as is, only most of them don't even get
> an optimization out of the deal.

Hint: The last X release made FreeType>= 2.1.7 mandatory, later it was
updated to V2.1.8 due lots of problems in 2.1.7 AND the issue with the
CJKV optimisation. So the vendors have two choices:
1. Using a buggy FreeType 2.1.7
  OR
2. Use FreeType 2.1.8

The 2nd option would trouble users much less...

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Bye,
Roland

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