Re: [ft-devel] web page for the forthcoming 2.2.0 release

2006-01-23 Thread david turner
Hi Werner and all, Perhaps we shall *rename* the library to, say, `libft2', instead of `libfreetype', together with a new API prefix `FT2_' instead of `FT_'. This would avoid the whole mess. Simply changing the library name is not going to change a lot of things due to the way dynamic

Re: [ft-devel] patch requested for freetype2/internal header usage (using font_bbox)

2006-01-23 Thread david turner
Hello Drew, thanks a *lot* for this e-mail. Here's what I've understood of the situation: - first of all, the fact that the code includes t42types.h means that the original developer assumed that Xprint was using the version of FreeType embedded within the X server, since this header has

Re: [ft-devel] web page for the forthcoming 2.2.0 release

2006-01-23 Thread Victor Luchits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Perhaps we shall *rename* the library to, say, `libft2', instead of `libfreetype', together with a new API prefix `FT2_' instead of `FT_'. This would avoid the whole mess. Yeah, that and to keep binary compatibility a stub library could be written

Re: [ft-devel] web page for the forthcoming 2.2.0 release

2006-01-23 Thread George Williams
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 01:53, david turner wrote: Perhaps we shall *rename* the library to, say, `libft2', instead of `libfreetype', Um this will break everybody's builds and will mean we can't have something that builds with either 1.10 or 2.0 without fancy configure scripting. I'm not sure