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Newsgroups: gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Subject: free xc/lib/font/fontfile/decompress.c replacement
Hello,
since I'm a BSD developer, the natural place to look for me regarding
the xc/lib/font/fontfile/decompress.c sources (Keith Packard said it
was derived from some ancient BSD sources) is our own source tree.
Voilą, there it is - src/usr.bin/compress/zopen.c, that's why the
decompress.c source looked so familiar to me.
I've taken a whole afternoon hacking this together, and tested it
on a "foo.bdf.Z" file (about 400 KiB compressed), derived from
xc/fonts/bdf/misc/12x13ja.bdf, with one character modified so I
can distinguish it. Works For Me(tm), but I'd be happy if someone
would review and endorse this replacement before it gets committed,
since I have absolutely no experience hacking X11 code, I must admit.
I've tested mkfontdir on the file, which is dynamically linked
against libXfont.so.1.5 (thus I guess it's safe), but had not yet
the chance to do a full XFree86 rebuild due to day-job constraints.
The new file comes with only a standard 3-clause UCB-style licence,
some more credits, and a much easier licence covering my work. I do
believe it's OSD and DFSG compliant and GNU GPL compatible; supporting
compress'd font files gives us an advantage over x.org, which is
something I'd like to see ;-) Also it's important in case there is
still an ancient Unix® around.
Thanks for taking your time!
bye,
//mirabile
PS: I've compress'd the replacement file, so only someone with a
working compress can verify the patch :) and to reduce the
message size. Have fun ;)
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