Re: [ft-devel] [ft-announce] Announcing FreeType version 2.6.1

[Jiang Jiang]

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2015-11/msg00124.html

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Jungshik Shin (신정식, 申政湜)
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Werner,
>
> When do you expect to release 2.6.2?  Thanks,
>
>
> Jungshik
>
> 2015-10-08 13:16 GMT-07:00 Behdad Esfahbod <address@hidden>:
>>
>> On 15-10-07 09:54 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Behdad Esfahbod
>> > <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> Can you please make more quick-and-small releases for important fixes?
>> >
>> > It does not matter
>>
>> It actually does.
>>
>> *Because* FreeType has very few releases, updating to a new release has
>> become
>> a major burden for most projects.  Any update will inevitably change
>> rasterizations, which results in angry users, lots of developer time
>> wasted
>> updating golden images of projects that thought it's a good idea to test
>> their
>> results pixel by pixel, and in general debugging why things changed and
>> deciding whether the change is ok or needs to be reported back to
>> FreeType, etc.
>>
>> Anyway, I'll ask for more releases as things get fixed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> behdad
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > considering that
>> > Fedora 22 runs 2.5.5, which is progressive in comparison to
>> > Android 5.1.1 runs 2.5.3
>> > Ubuntu Vivid runs 2.5.2
>> > iOS runs 2.4.7 last time I checked
>> >
>> > Why distributions are more conservative about FreeType than kernel is
>> > beyond me.
>> > .
>> >
>>
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