Re: Time to sweat the details (was Re: Minutes of the GNOME Board....)

[jg pa dec com (Jim Gettys)]

> 
> That may well be due to Apple patent questions. The true type renderer no
> longer handles some of the hinting, some fonts basically rely on that.

Depends on how the freetype library is built: I had the
fully enabled one installed.

The config file itself was badly broken: there was a bunch of miss
configuration in it (caused by uses of += where =+ was correct).

The fundamental point is that if we, as developers, don't sweat the details 
and get the out of the box (in our case, CVS or tarballs) correct, the 
probability that one or more distro vendors get it badly wrong in an attempt 
to "fix" it, goes way up.

				- Jim

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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg pa dec com