[Xorg] Removing xc/lib/font/Type1 , Speedo and FONTCACHE support from Xorg default build...

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Thu Apr 22 19:50:46 PDT 2004


Hi!

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Are there any objections against that I remove the following stuff from
the Xorg default build:
1. xc/lib/font/Type1/ - this code handles Type1 and CID fonts.
Unfortunately the code is permanently crashing with "Beziers this big
not yet supported" and that's more than anyoing... and the code is no
longer be maintained since a longer time... and even Xfree86 has
turned-off that code since the xc/lib/font/Freetype/ code has Type1 font
support and does the job much better than xc/lib/font/Type1/
Note: I am _not_ removing PS Type1 font support... Type1 fonts will
still be supported after that change... don't worry... :)

2. Speedo font support.
Xfree86 turned Speedo font support off, Sun turned it off and AFAIK
there were no new fonts in that format since at least ten (!!) years. I
propose to turn Speedo font support OFF and remove it from the default
font path

3. FONTCACHE extension support
AFAIK Xfree86 removed that from their default build

If I don't hear any complaints within the next 48h I'll remove that
stuff from the default build.

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Bye,
Roland

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