From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 07:00:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12A416A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:00:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B349643D1D for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:00:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9P70sWx049733 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:00:54 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i9P70sxR049732; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:00:54 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:00:54 GMT Message-Id: <200410250700.i9P70sxR049732@freefall.freebsd.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org From: Clive Lin Subject: Re: ports/73083: firefly patchset for pretty CJK fonts display/print X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Clive Lin List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:00:54 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/73083; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Clive Lin To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/73083: firefly patchset for pretty CJK fonts display/print Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:57:45 +0800 On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:33:48PM +0000, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Pango is about to be updated to 1.6.x following the release of 5.3. After > that, this patchset will most likely have to be modified. Once that is done, > it can be committed. Sure, I'm aware of this, and I will keep eyes on it ;) > I would also like to know what plans, if any, exist for pushing these patches > upstream? It would seem like the freetype, fontconfig, and pango people > would be interested in making CJK fonts as nice as possible. Kicking these patchsets into mainstreams of freetype, fontconfig, pango, and those not mentioned here like openoffice, mozilla, is underway. There're patches accepted, and patches rejected. Once acceptable solutions are found, they will be integrated gradually. The key point is, patches must make both non-CJK and CJK people happy. Dirty hacks due to incomplete API or simply lack of completeness in the patches, are reasons why they're still maintained elsewhere. Ports is a great vehicle to deliver current works and attract more developers, as long as the patchset is well maintained, which I promised to do.