Re: I'm back

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> not a pressure issue, but i would like to have VF driver. A Summer
>> of Code task has begun, never finished, though.
>
> Are you talking about TeX Virtual Fonts, or OpenType Variable Fonts
> here?

He talks about the former.  Support for OpenType VFs is already part
of FreeType.

> For the former, that sounds like a lot of work, for a format that
> isn't used to create new fonts anymore.  And as far as I understand,
> most TeX fonts of interest have been transliterated to OpenType
> already.

Well, there are still people interested in such font formats,
obviously :-) I like a lot that FreeType supports many different font
formats, so why not the TeX ones?  It is very unfortunate that the
GSoC project some years ago didn't deliver anything useful – the job
was to integrate the excellent 'VFlib' library stuff into FreeType,
and the guy seemed to be overwhelmed with this job.

>> I would be interested in knowing whether anyone is using Jamfiles
>> these days?
> 
> So in other words, let's get rid of the Jamfiles if nobody is using
> them today.  If someone is opposed to that, please speak up!

Given that a special, unmaintained version of Jam is needed to build
FreeType, I think that removing Jam support is the right way to
proceed.

As a consequence I've just added a sentence to the CHANGES file that
Jam support will be removed in the release after the next one (i.e.,
not in 2.10.2 but in 2.10.3).


    Werner