Storing glyphs as Pixmaps

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Mon Aug 6 15:45:40 PDT 2007


Carl Worth wrote:
> I only mentioned the potential concern of a new dependency in case
> some Xorg maintainers/developers would be allergic to it. (For me,
> personally, openssl is universally available on any machine I would
> ever install Xorg on.)

As much as I dislike OpenSSL's binary incompatible releases, it is fairly
widely available, and already knows what the best methods are of doing the
computations on the various hardware platforms are, so I'd go with it over
yet another re-implementation.

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




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