Re: Say goodbye to core X fonts

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Owen,

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 17:59, Owen Taylor wrote:

> Problems that need to be dealt with, or at least thought
> about:
> 
>  - Existing GTK+ programs have have a library dependency
>    on libpangox-1.0.so. So, we'll have to provide a dummy
>    libpangox-1.0.so so that these programs continue
>    to run.
> 
>  - There may be some programs that use the PangoX
>    backend *directly*. The only case I'm actually aware
>    of this is the VTE terminal library. There's nothing
>    much we can do here; once the backend is gone, it's
>    gone. For VTE, it would actually help to stub out
>    all the PangoX API functions; that would keep old
>    versions of VTE starting up as long as they didn't
>    try to use the PangoX functions. (And VTE won't
>    use PangoX if Xft is available.)

	Are you then effectively saying "although we said we were going to be
fully ABI compatible we're breaking it now" ?

	I'm not criticising, I'm honestly just curious as to whether or not 
this breaks previous guarantees about ABI stability ...

Good Luck,
Mark.