ports/149537: I have updated the x11/pixman port to release 0.18.2

Douglas Carmichael dcarmich at dcarmichael.net
Tue Aug 31 12:20:05 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR ports/149537; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich at dcarmichael.net>
To: Anonymous <swell.k at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/149537: I have updated the x11/pixman port to release 0.18.2
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:19:42 -0500

 Also, currently I am using GNOME2 with pixman 0.19.2 with no ill effects.
  
 On Aug 28, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Anonymous wrote:
 
 > Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich at dcarmichael.net> writes:
 > 
 >> On Aug 28, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Anonymous wrote:
 >>> 0.19.2 was released a week ago.
 >>> 
 >>> BTW, do you test pixman against main upward deps, e.g. Xserver, cairo?
 >>> 
 >> The X server starts and doesn't give any inappropriate errors.
 >> 
 > 
 > IIRC, firefox uses cairo/pixman for image transformations, e.g. scaling.
 > So, if the updated version doesn't distort scaled images then it's
 > probably OK.
 > 
 > And I guess Xserver is using pixman to help render TrueType fonts.
 > So, you can try to run xterm with a .ttf font e.g. DejaVu Sans Mono,
 > and use scrolling.
 > 
 


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