Release Wranglers Call - 5th March 2003

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

Howard Greenwell wrote:
> All,
> 
> The minutes of the Release call today:
> 
> Attendees:
> 
> Keith Packard
> Jim Gettys
> Stuart Krietman
> John Dennis
> Howard Greenwell
> Paul Anderson
> Leon Shiman
> Egbert Eich
> 

I was on the call too. I joined shortly before Egbert.

> 219 - Egbert said look in CVS to see where it is disabled by default. 
> Will not change until he has been informed that it is OK not to ship 
> "expat" on a particular system. Keith thinks should be completely 
> removed. Egbert disagrees - Freetype uses it. Experimented today to 
> update to Freetype 2.1.7 in the tree. Wants to know if the Freetype code 
> should be committed. Roland Mainz needs Freetype 2.1.7 because Xprint 
> needs it.

And to the extent we need freetype---  There are lots of systems, e.g. 
Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, etc., that don't have expat on them.

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Kaleb