relocatable pango?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen xs4all nl>]

Hi everyone,

LilyPond uses Pango. For our MacOS .app bundle, I would like to use 
Pango in a cleaner way.  Currently, we have a python wrapper that 
rewrites the pangorc and pango.modules file for each run.  This is 
necessary because on MacOS X, users are free to drag and drop .app 
bundles where they want.

So, I would like to make Pango relocatable, i.e. allow the install 
directories for modules and config files to be changed in between runs. 
I suspect that it would also make our windows32 installer more simple.

The most efficient way of accomplishing this seems to be expanding 
environment variables in

char **pango_split_file_list (const char *str)

and somewhere in the config file parser, eg. in pango_scan_string().


Owen, what do you think?  Would such a patch stand a chance of being 
included?

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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen xs4all nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen