Re: Heads up on Pango HEAD

[Erwann Chenede <Erwann Chenede Sun COM>]

Hi Keith,

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>> - pango has now a full dependency on xft.
>>   (which in turn as a dependency the XRender extension)
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>The Xft module depends on Xft (oddly enough).

???
 
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>Xft2 doesn't depend on Render -- it can draw text on legacy X servers, AA 
>text with GetImage/PutImage and non-AA text with cheaper requests.

Good !
Where can I find Xft2, so ?

I thought it was in fcpackage.02-06-03.01-31/Xft but this version 
has a dependency on XRender. This mean we cannot compile pango on Solaris.

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>> So this mean effectively mean that pango will only work on XFree, right ?
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>No; fontconfig and Xft2 are to be released separately from XFree.

And independent from XRender.

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>> If so is there a way/plan to make these dependencies conditional to make
>> pango and therefore all GNOME 2.0 applications work on other X servers ? 
>> (Yes, you are right, I'm thinking about Sun's X Server).
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>There is no need to make them conditional; all of the infrastructure 
>needed can be supplied along with Gnome to run on Sun's X Server.  When
>Sun's X server incorporates the Render extension, AA text will just get 
>faster.

Thanks for the clarification.

Erwann

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