ports/178552: Update print/freetype2 to version 2.4.12

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:38 AM,  <giffunip at tutopia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2013 07:51:50 -0500, Jeremy Messenger
> <mezz.freebsd at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> 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.


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