From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 15 18:42:24 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533AED88 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 18:42:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ve0-x22a.google.com (mail-ve0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c01::22a]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 193EF2AC for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 18:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f170.google.com with SMTP id 15so457253vea.15 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 11:42:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=vHKfUgQtgv/KKyPRtWfOJZCWH2EU3YCw1EVMZNtFb9Q=; b=vBTMDlPcRWda4NGg0u+t+U9OlfGp4FMJ6J78Vhjmr9t8pU91WJxuYvusITuLUGyPcJ pliV5sezWzqkN250uvhebmWjhubph08Oonb+mVvx4yoKCgnc1P/sG86HzTnIf+lIR49a UlB5B9SqUKDQ9DE83h6MLb9tR5SAcRpXnWimw2cQzHNk7icDIK0t4b6XYZEsiUOWAlqx xBagJxjLzRlRbI16uN6XPucXRdeTf4m3PPv0lFz+2bVBX2S7FkjIunf4a7zhAYTKq9cM gH4PuFDcap5vcAwBQTIvfE9a4S9Dbu12I/V2Sn0ZjcKwcCpibNXJXBulmMdxA+0tfbcX s6ww== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.24.113 with SMTP id t17mr21885329vdf.30.1368643343609; Wed, 15 May 2013 11:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.59.2.6 with HTTP; Wed, 15 May 2013 11:42:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <72f5fb9e17f4fcd3153990f255752633@tutopia.com> References: <201305150530.r4F5UDxN042667@freefall.freebsd.org> <72f5fb9e17f4fcd3153990f255752633@tutopia.com> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 13:42:23 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ports/178552: Update print/freetype2 to version 2.4.12 From: Jeremy Messenger To: Pedro Giffuni Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 18:42:24 -0000 On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:38 AM, wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2013 07:51:50 -0500, Jeremy Messenger > wrote: >>> >>> Apart from some minor issues, this version of FreeType supports the >>> new CFF engine donated by Adobe in collaboration with Google. >>> >>> Testing of this new feature is encouraged but in order to activate >>> it the code must be patched so I added the suggested patch that sets >>> it as the new default hinter. >> >> >> >> Why did you enable it by default? This is a testing feature and they >> must have disable it for some reasons too, so it needs to be disabled >> by default with the optional provide. It will be enable by default >> when they enable it. We need to follow its tarball's default. >> > > It is simply a very desirable feature, specially if you have > Opentype fonts available. > > They will be enabling it by default on their next release but > it is already considered stable enough (it just works here). The freetype2 is not a port that where you can just throw it quick. They didn't enable this now, because it's not ready so the ports tree isn't ready for this either. > I think we should at least have an option to enable it. Yes, it's what I have suggested in my first replied. ;-) > Pedro. -- mezz.freebsd@gmail.com - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org