Around 23 o'clock on Mar 20, Owen Taylor wrote:

>  - Require fontconfig and Xft2 for all installations of Pango that
>    want to use the backends. (fontconfig is independent of X, Xft2
>    supports servers without the RENDER extension.) This would clean up
>    the code a _lot_ and make it a easier to share memory between the
>    two backends, but on the other hand adds yet one dependency to an
>    an already complex build process.

Note that Xft1 now uses fontconfig as well, but still requires the Render 
extension (I can't fix that in a binary compatible way).  This will make
MiniXft a configuration liability once this version of Xft1 becomes widely 
available.

If it would help, I can release both Xfts and Fontconfig sooner than XFree86 
4.3.  That would give distributions a chance to integrate them into build 
processes along with Gtk+ 2.x as needed.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        Compaq Cambridge Research Lab


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