#2193: Drop Xfree86 from the book
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Reporter: Ag.Hatzim | Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.1
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Changes (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* owner: [email protected] => [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* status: new => assigned
* summary: Drop Xfree86 from the book. => Drop Xfree86 from the book
* type: task => enhancement
* milestone: future => 6.1
Comment:
XFree is horribly broken against FreeType >=2.2.0. Many program
sources contain calls to:
FT_INTERNAL
freetype/internal
FT_CACHE_INTERNAL
which are not available any longer in the API. The issue is
discussed fully at:
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/freetype-2.2.0.html
There's no patch that I can find anywhere, and there's nothing
in the XFree86 CVS tree that addresses this. XFree86 devs at
this point need to really consider their using a dedicated
version of FreeType piggy-backed along in the XFree86 source
tree. It could be the death of the project.
I'll give them a couple of months, after that we'll be forced
to remove XFree86 from the book.
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