Branching libXfont 1.4 & 1.5

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 19:17:58 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> I've reproduced this here as well.   Here's my proposal to handle this
> incompatible change:
> 
> - make a libXfont-1.4-branch to use for stable releases to get bug fixes
>   to users of xorg-server-1.15 and older.   It's configure.ac will
>   require fontsproto < 2.1.3 for compatibility.  It will have everything
>   in the current git master branch except for Keith's commit that
>   constified the arguments to CacheFontPattern & FindCachedFontPattern.
>   I've got some bug fixes that need to go into this branch soon, then
>   I'll cut a 1.4.8 off it.
> 
> - update the version in the master branch to 1.4.99.0 for now, with a
>   RC once we get patches in for at least:
>   - the cygwin/mingw patch in http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/23708/
>   - the configure.ac patch I just posted for fontsproto >= 2.13
>   - making --disable-snfformat the default, as warned in the README
> 
> The goal will be to have libXfont 1.5.0 ready for xorg-server-1.16.0.
> 
Sounds good.  Thanks!

Cheers,
Julien