Thanks Werner for the detailed message!

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> What do you think?  Shall I remove (3c), enforcing (3a) to all users?
> Or shall the new mode stay?  It's easy to revert the changes, if you
> can convince me :-)
>

I prefer you just change what light mode does.  We never guaranteed strict
backwards compatibility anyway.  TO me it doesn't make sense to deprecate
existing mode and introduce new one.  If you do, then cairo, Qt, etc need
to conditionally switch to the new one at compile time, and it will be more
confusing when someone complains.  For example, if they compile cairo
against old FreeType, then install new FreeType, they will be getting the
deprecated light mode, whereas if they recompile cairo against new FreeType
the'd get the new slight mode.  We can do without more confusion...


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behdad
http://behdad.org/
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