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Re: Did some porting for cygwin
E wrote:
> At 12:36 PM 22/07/2001 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> The cygwin-xfree people get justifiably upset when a "fork" like this
>> happens (and make no mistake, what you're proposing is a fork -- or
>> will become one once the inevitable version-skew happens).
>
>
> I think the mistake is on your part. I am not proposing a fork. I am
> suggesting that the freetype package be contributed by cygwin-xfree into
> the base set of packages for cygwin.
Ah. It sounded like you wanted a freetype package, separate from what
was distributed (already) by the cygwin-xfree people. Sorry for the
misunderstanding.
> If the answer to that is "it will
> happen soon, just wait a bit" then that's fine.
I *think* that is the current plan -- modulo splitting it out from the
Xbin.tgz package and into its own "freetype" package. If the
cygwin-xfree folks don't want to do that, then it ain't gonna happen --
cgf has already given them veto power *specifically* over libfreetype.
(Long story, go read the thread in cgywin-xfree mailing list archives)
> You could have said
> that without the condescendence(tm).
Didn't intend to be so. Sorry if it came across that way.
>> Besides, freetype is useless without the X libraries, anyway.
>
>
> Well, judging from the original email, it is at least useful for PHP,
> which is not X based to my knowledge. I know I've used it in another
> application that was not X based. So I guess it is not totally useless
> with the X libraries, anyway.
<crotchety voice> Well, back in the day when I provided libfreetype-1
<cough hack></crotchety voice> from the CygUtils webpage, it did depend
on X. However, it appears that freetype-2 no longer does -- I just did
a cygcheck on the latest libfreetype.dll from
cygwin-xfree-4.1.0/Xbin.tgz, and it doesn't depend on any of the X
dll's. So, it looks like you're right -- my info was out of date.
Sorry for the confusion.
--Chuck
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