Re: No more problem with 0.18.0

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Jens Askengren">

> Fontconfig does no error repporting. It doesen't even print warnings to
> stdout. A missing fonts.conf will lead to a crash. The "xml" parser (why
> expat, when we have libxml?) happily accepts unballanced tags, etc,
> etc.. 

It uses expat because that's installed on a wider set of platforms than
libxml2. Perhaps when X moves to libxml2, fontconfig will too.

> This pice of software is imho simply not mature enough to be used as one
> of the corner stones in Gnome2 yet.

Oh, gee, welcome to our UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SERIES, of which pango 1.1.x
relies on new X features. Sorry if this has caused you some INCONVENIENCE,
the rest of us here are TESTING it.

Thanks,

- Jeff

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