Re: Glib 2.10 / Pango 1.? for GNOME 2.14?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Luca Ferretti wrote:

> Il giorno mer, 18/01/2006 alle 10.21 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero ha
> scritto:
> > Sorry that I dropped the ball on this, and haven't followed all the
> > discussion.
> >
> > Other than Pango optimizations and and GSlice in Glib, is there a
> > compelling reason to use the new Glib/Pango in GNOME 2.14?
>
> Unicode 4.1 ?

Yes, which is very important IMHO.  Also Pango HEAD handles
OpenType Latin (and other basic scripts) fonts.  It also does
cairo-fc hexbox drawing.  That change deserves going into stable
branch, but it was a non-obvious change and needed some porting
work, so I didn't do myself.

I think a better way to rephrase Federico's question is: should
the floating stuff be rolled back?  I think that was discussed
and closed already.  So we have a glib release that we want to
not use?!

The question is really about glib now.  Pango is using some new
stuff in latest glib, includeing g_slice, like many other modules
do already..


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