On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:42:20PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >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.
Yes, historically I believe that this zopen.c is derived from from the older decompress.c. >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 don't have the time right now to give it a thorough review, but I wouldn't object to committing it provisionally to XFree86 to give it wider exposure. >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. :-) David _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
