[Freetype] Re: [Fonts]New versions of mkfontscale and FreeType 2 backend

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

Keith Packard <address@hidden>:

KP> Are you now using the regular .so for your server-side module?

That's the plan ultimately (I wouldn't dare disobey Keith), but it's
still premature for two reasons.

I'm currently using two internal interfaces, which I don't wish to
export to server modules.  I'll first need to modify FreeType to make
the data I need available legally, and then get the nice FreeType
hackers to bless my new interfaces (and, knowing them, to change them
completely in the process).

I also need to modify FreeType to behave reliably in the default Linux
build by falling back to fread if mmap failes.  I'm just not willing
to deal with the bug reports I'll receive if I don't do that.

                                        Juliusz

P.S. In case you missed either of the discussions,

  http://www.freetype.org/pipermail/freetype/2002-April/002121.html
  http://www.freetype.org/pipermail/freetype/2002-April/002053.html