RE: [ft-devel] Status of 2.2

[Frederic Crozat]

Le jeudi 06 octobre 2005 à 10:44 +0200, Turner, David a écrit :
> > I'm investigating whether I should update Rawhide to freetype 2.1.10.
> > A number of questions come up:
> >  - Do you have any idea how far out 2.2 still is ?
> >
> 
> Not precisely, mainly because I haven't had the time to provide
> patches for all major libraries. At the moment, both Pango and
> LibXft have received and integrated patches. However, I believe
> that QT and SDL_ttf, at the very least, still need updates.
> 
> 
> There is something I'd like to ask to anyone having access to the
> *complete* sources of a distribution, because it will help us prioritize
> the patches. I'm thinking about Owen Tayloy, Frédéric Crozat and
> possibly others:
> 
>   - would it be possible to perform a massive grep over all sources
>     of all packages you maintain to check for 'illegal' uses of the
>     FT2 internals ?
> 
>     the way to do that is simply to perform a fgrep for the
>     following:
> 
>        FT_INTERNAL_
>        FT_CACHE_INTERNAL_
> 
>     I'd really like to have a report telling me which package still
>     use theses. Unfortunately, I don't have the time and disk space
>     to download all sources repositories of various distros.

I'll see what I can do (but it won't be done this week, I'm sure of
that :)

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Frederic Crozat <address@hidden>
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