Re: Build system considerations

2020-05-01 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El divendres, 1 de maig de 2020, a les 0:52:16 CEST, David Turner va escriure: > Le jeu. 30 avr. 2020 à 23:33, Albert Astals Cid a écrit : > > > El dijous, 30 d’abril de 2020, a les 19:35:19 CEST, Behdad Esfahbod va > > escriure: > > > Hi David, > > > > > > Thanks for bringing this up. I come

Re: [patches] Minor build system improvements

2020-05-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Here are two cumulative patches that try to simplify the rules.mk > and module.mk used by the FreeType 2 build system. [...] Thanks a lot, will check them soon! Since I'm going to cut a new release soon I wonder whether it makes sense to put this patch temporarily into a branch, avoiding

Re: [patches] Minor build system improvements

2020-05-01 Thread David Turner
Yes, none of that is urgent :) Feel free to not push them to master for now (branch or no branch). I'd still value your input on the content though, hope it's not too scary :) Le ven. 1 mai 2020 à 10:25, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > > > Here are two cumulative patches that try to simplify the

Re: Build system considerations

2020-05-01 Thread David Turner
Le ven. 1 mai 2020 à 10:12, Albert Astals Cid a écrit : > > > I apologize if somebody felt personally wronged by my comment. > > Since I don't see anything wrong with it, I would be very happy if you > could please explain what's wrong with it so I can try to improve myself in > the future. > >

[freetype2-demos] Fix compiler warnings

2020-05-01 Thread David Turner
This patches removes a few compiler warnings when building the FreeType 2 demo programs. It also replaces a few strncpy() calls with snprintf() for safety / simplicity. This should fix https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?58275 From 33ebbd7333d10a5dbac6cac9c37c95a573e24e80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

Re: [Freetype-devel] Re: Build system considerations

2020-05-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [...] I'm interested in the decision under a situation: if harfbuzz > requires libstdc++, should we care the dependency of FreeType? Please elaborate. Given that FreeType is a C library it's not clear to me why there should be an issue – FreeType happily works without HarfBuzz (then with

Re: [freetype2-demos] Fix compiler warnings

2020-05-01 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
> This should fix https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?58275 > <0001-Fix-compilation-warnings.patch> We still use Emacs style for commit messages and track them in ChangeLog, which is debatable

Re: [freetype2-demos] Fix compiler warnings

2020-05-01 Thread David Turner
Le ven. 1 mai 2020 à 13:53, Alexei Podtelezhnikov a écrit : > > This should fix https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?58275 > > <0001-Fix-compilation-warnings.patch> > > > We still use Emacs style for commit messages > I'm not sure what that means. I've updated the commit message to look like what

Re: [freetype2-demos] Fix compiler warnings

2020-05-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> We still use Emacs style for commit messages > > I'm not sure what that means. I've updated the commit message to > look like what is currently in the git log. He means that we still maintain a ChangeLog file. >> and track them in ChangeLog, which is debatable > > Yes, it seems a bit

Re: [freetype2-demos] Fix compiler warnings

2020-05-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> This patches removes a few compiler warnings when building the > FreeType 2 demo programs. It also replaces a few strncpy() calls > with snprintf() for safety / simplicity. Thanks a lot! Now committed. Werner

Re: [freetype2-demos] Fix compiler warnings

2020-05-01 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
> > Yes, it seems a bit odd these days, but I'll let Werner be the judge > > on that :-) > > The main reason to maintain a ChangeLog file in the strict Emacs-like > format is that you have to concentrate on adding good descriptions. > Writing a sloppy one-liner while doing `git commit` is far too

Re: Build system considerations

2020-05-01 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
> > I apologize if somebody felt personally wronged by my comment. > > Since I don't see anything wrong with it, I would be very happy if you could > please explain what's wrong with it so I can try to improve myself in the > future. Rather easy. I am sure this is not how you communicate with

Re: [freetype2-demos] Fix compiler warnings

2020-05-01 Thread Nikolaus Waxweiler
There are tools like towncrier and probably others where your patches are accompanied by news fragments in a news dir that are assembled into a news file and then cleared on release.