Dan Pascu wrote: > On Monday 27 October 2008, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: >> Carlos R. Mafra wrote: >>> You missed the bug fixes which happened on Dan's darcs after 0.92.0 >>> was out, and they are important too. >> I did not take a look at the dan branch when I applied these. I had >> limited myself to the Debian patches, and the WMCreateFont() bug you >> fixed. > > That WMCreateFont patch is a bad idea. A library (like WINGs) should never > decide what to do when something that was asked from the application is > not available, even less decide to kill the application (when the default > is not available either). That code/decision should reside in the calling > application (what if the application wants to use a different default > when some font is not available, how does it tell that the first font it > asked for is available or it just got a default replacement?) >
Right, fair enough. When I tried to fix the crash I considered WINGs to be unique to Window Maker, I guess. And not a general library. So I will try to come with a better patch for that in the next days, unless someone beats me to it (as I am not a good programmer). In the meantime, we can revert it. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
