xserver: Branch 'master' - Remove loadable font renderer support

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Wed Jul 16 14:31:22 PDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:44 -0400, James Cloos wrote:
> Does this remove the availability of freetype for server-side fonts or
> does it just convert it from a loadable module to a static part of the
> server?

The latter.  Everyone loaded it anyway, might as well make it explicit.
It also gives us a bit more flexibility to change the core font
implementation since it's no longer exported ABI.  Not, of course, that
I'm encouraging anyone to use core fonts, but they do have to keep
working, and the current implementation is kinda dire.

- ajax
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