Update of FreeType2

Dejan Lesjak dejan.lesjak at ijs.si
Sat Feb 19 11:06:19 PST 2005


Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 09:59 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm thinking about go for the latest FreeType2, now that we are
>> unfrozen, with near all apps updated and without any mayor desktop
>> change in a while (unless firefox).
>> 
>> someone knows what are mayor showstoppers to this?
> 
> Mozilla and all Mozilla-based ports were the biggest problem.  I think
> most other ports should be okay by now, but that should be evaluated.

That would be nifty, XFree86 4.5 will need newer FreeType (but that will 
happen after FreeBSD 5.4 most probably). Last time I was fiddling with this, 
I scavenged patches for Mozillas that seem to be taken from NetBSD pkgsrc, so 
that could help if it is acceptable given the Mozilla branding.


Dejan


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