contributing new font package for xorg (fwd)

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Thu Aug 11 11:20:34 PDT 2005


Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
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>>I agree that we need to publish our criteria for inclusion in Xorg, both
>>for fonts and packages in general, but I believe for the specific example
>>you raised, the Bitstream Vera fonts, X11R7.0 will not include them, but
>>will simply include a note telling people to get them from
>>http://www.gnome.org/fonts/.
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> So far the extras stuff has been distributed by Xorg as well as its
> upstream, is this going to change?

I think we'll have an "extras" directory in the ftp sites with the
tarballs from the upstream containing the versions we've tested with,
but won't be repackaging them or adding in our own build system as we
used to.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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