Hi Phil, I realise this is quite an old thread, but do you think I can request the proposed patch [1] for backport to 8?
We've been shipping it in our RPMs for some time but I think it would be much nicer to have this upstreamed for all to consume. Cheers, Mario [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neugens/8188030/webrev-jdk8.01/ On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Phil Race <philip.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > Sorry .. but there may be more work needed on 8 that I forgot about. > But its for Oracle JDK to account for the fact that CFF fonts are still > being excluded there. > > In a nutshell .. if we end up with zero fonts as a result .. just add the > Oracle JDK's Lucida Sans > as slot 0 font so that there is SOMETHING. > > However I know you can't test this .. since you don't have that font. > > So if you'd prefer to stick to what you can test I'd quite understand and > we'd handle that part separately. > > -phil. > > > On 11/15/2017 09:07 AM, Mario Torre wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Phil Race <philip.r...@oracle.com> wrote: >>> >>> Mario, >>> >>> Can you please request 8 backport approval for this version (which I have >>> approved as below) >>> >>> I know some internal folks who like to see it in 8 as well and I had to >>> tell >>> them you already have a fix for 8 in hand .. >>> >>> The jdk-updates project is only for 9+ so the usual old 8 rules should >>> apply >>> for this. >> >> Right, I was sidetracked by that discussion but this is on my list, >> I'm preparing the backport request as we speak. >> >> Cheers, >> Mario > > -- Mario Torre Associate Manager, Software Engineering Red Hat GmbH <https://www.redhat.com> 9704 A60C B4BE A8B8 0F30 9205 5D7E 4952 3F65 7898
