On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:29:30PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>>> The main point is that I consider core fonts to be obsolete -- client
>>> applications, especially internationalised ones, should move to Xft.
>
>DD> That's an issue to take up with application developers.  
>
>Isn't that what we are doing?
>
>Let me reformulate this: I do not think that adding functionality to
>core fonts is a good way to expend developper time, particularly when
>I am the delopper in question.  Especially so in October.

None of that matters if others find that they need functionality
that you disagree with in order to use the applications that they
have today to their satisfaction.  If you personally choose not to
meet their needs (which is entirely up to you, and entirely
reasonable), someone else might.

I'm not really interested in seeing contributions rejected solely
on the premise that accepting them would reduce the impetus for
application developers to move in a particular direction.  This
isn't what I would call a convincing technical argument if I were
such an application developer.  So, no, I don't think that is what
you are doing here.

David
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David Dawes
Founder/committer/developer                     The XFree86 Project
www.XFree86.org/~dawes
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