ports/73083: firefly patchset for pretty CJK fonts display/print

[Clive Lin]

The following reply was made to PR ports/73083; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Clive Lin <clive at freebsd.org>
To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
Cc: gnome at 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.