Hello Phil,
Thanks for reply. I understand the standard JDK (the Oracle JDK7
etc) may have some standard to follow which is judged by business decision.
Anyway for the OpenJDK community, I guess it may be more helpful
to open to someone is interested in and willing to contribute, and then
with these patches the OpenJDK may support more platforms or have better
accessibility - at least it's no harm to the community, and a plus to
the code base.
I don't catch you what "maintenance pain" it is, as the patch is
just a few plain text configuration, without complex logic and may not
break any thing.
On 2011/11/4 0:19, Phil Race wrote:
Jimmy,
1. Adding a fontconfig.properties for a distro and version will not
make it appear on the
Oracle supported/certified list. It will remain
unsupport/uncertified as that's a business decision.
2. Adding fontconfig.properties files is not needed in JDK 7. See
"Support for Linux Fonts" at
http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/2d/enhancements70.html
The result is JDK uses the same fonts as the Linux desktop for logical
fonts which I think is a plus.
So I don't see such a patch as needed. It just restores the
maintenance pain we have just got rid of.
-phil.
On 11/3/11 12:42 AM, Jing Lv wrote:
(Forward this mail for 2d list as it is more appropriate)
Hello,
I see in the list
(http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/system-configurations-135212.html
, so openjdk has the same list for support platform as standard jdk),
SLES10/11, RHEL5 are on the list (surprising ubuntu is not), so I
suppose fontconfig.properties is required for SLES10/11, RHEL5, I'd
like to post the patch if no objection.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Accessibility]Add fontconfig.properties files for
SLES10/11, RHEL5, Ubuntu 8.04 etc
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:46:51 +0800
From: Jing Lv <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Hello,
I happen to find out JDK7 miss fontconfig.properties for
SLES10/11, RHEL5, Ubuntu 8.04 etc. Are these platforms supported by
OpenJDK? If so, I suppose add them may be friendly to the customers
working on that. I've prepare some patch, the file
fontconfig.properties and modification on the makefile. I'd like to post
it on the list if no objection.
Thank you.
Jimmy
