xc/lib/font/FreeType/ in "XORG-RELEASE-1"-branch differs fromXfree86 trunk...

Daniel Stone daniel at freedesktop.org
Mon Mar 15 17:20:26 PST 2004


On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:24:17AM +0900, Chisato Yamauchi wrote:
> From: Daniel Stone <daniel at freedesktop.org>
> Subject: Re: xc/lib/font/FreeType/ in "XORG-RELEASE-1"-branch differs fromXfree86 trunk...
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 01:54:55 +1100
> 
> > Sure - I use neither CJK nor core fonts, but if it was slugging 8859-1,
> > I'd argue against the patch, too.
> 
>   Although I was using fontconfig before, I stopped using it.
> I uses Core Font only recently.  Since the Xft2/fontconfig is slow
> in action.
> 
>   That is, "we" are not homogeneous.
> 
> > > I don't think you should even vote on things if you don't understand
> > > the consequences that others may have.
> > > I'll look into a way to make both worlds happy as much as possible.
> > 
> > I'm not voting, I was just expressing an opinion, and a request. Please
> > don't do it, because I want people to respect the bounds between a
> > public and private API for X releases.
> 
>   Should it be respected even if the change kills the most 
> important improvement?

IMVHO (and note that I am not an X.Org developer), yes.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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