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FreeType lib, Cygwin/X11 project, users loose?
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- Subject: FreeType lib, Cygwin/X11 project, users loose?
- From: "Soren Andersen" <soren at wonderstorm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:48:30 -0400
- Reply-To: "Soren Andersen" <soren at wonderstorm dot com>
Charles,
I started to add this as a postscript to my earlier reply regarding bdb,
then decided not to overload that message.
Some time ago I found out that:
AFAIK, libttf/FreeType _v1_ is *not* being made available by the cygwin/X11
contingent. I have read some archived 'exchanges' concerning that ... but
what's in Cyg/X11 now is Freetype **v2**, not v1 -- as many people may know,
they changed the API significantly and some applications want only v1
(haven't been rewritten to the FreeType2). IMO, again, you need not have /
should not have pulled FreeType v1 from the downloads on your site. I
dislike seeing sincere and hard-working volunteers like yourself dissed and
discouraged in your efforts based on some other people's egotism and /or
sense of territoriality or bureaucratic rigidity.
Soren Andersen
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