xserver: Branch 'master' - Remove loadable font renderer support

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> writes:

Adam> The latter.  Everyone loaded it anyway, might as well make it
Adam> explicit.

I presumed so, but wanted to be sure.

Adam> It also gives us a bit more flexibility to change the core font
Adam> implementation since it's no longer exported ABI.

Also a good feature.

Adam> Not, of course, that I'm encouraging anyone to use core fonts,
Adam> but they do have to keep working,

Yup.  Even were xlib to get support for faking server-side fonts by
way of client-side fonts¹ there will always be some useful apps which
are not dynamically linked, or are running from older, remote client
devices.

Adam> and the current implementation is kinda dire.

I remember when allowing the freetype module to load a sfnt/glyf font
with a XLFD encoding of 10646-1 was guaranteed to crash the server.

-JimC

1] Yes, that is a hint to anyone who seeks a *Project*.

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