Hello, Attached patches add LCD filtering support to print/freetype2 and x11-fonts/libXft ports. I've used them for a couple of months and did not encounter any issues. You may consider possibility to include them into FreeBSD ports collection. ps. in case if you do not know about LCD filtering, feel free to check those resources: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10301 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user/2238 http://david.freetype.org/lcd/ Best regards,
Class Changed From-To: maintainer-update->change-request Fix category (submitter is not maintainer) (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool)
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State Changed From-To: open->closed We normal don't want to maintain any unoffical patches on our own unless we have to. After looked at a few of bugzilla and mailing list, it's not complete ready and they are still tweaking. These libraries are maintaining very well by upstream, so when patches are ready and these will be in the release tarball.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:12:43AM +0000, mezz@FreeBSD.org wrote: > We normal don't want to maintain any unoffical patches on our own unless we > have to. After looked at a few of bugzilla and mailing list, it's not complete > ready and they are still tweaking. These libraries are maintaining very well > by upstream, so when patches are ready and these will be in the release > tarball. Actually, as far as I understood David Turner <david <at> freetype.org> said that Microsoft has several patents covering the ClearType "technology", so it is very unlikely that the patches will be included into freetype2, libXft, cairo, etc. For example, Ubuntu developers maintain the pathes on their own for quite a while. Anyway, thank you for consideration and all the best to FreeBSD project.
mezz 2008-01-24 06:11:56 UTC FreeBSD ports repository Modified files: print/freetype2 Makefile Log: Add LCD filtering option, WITH_LCD_FILTERING. Visit URL below to learn more about it. It is disable by default because of possible patent issues. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user/2238 PR: ports/119906 Submitted by: Alexander Zhuravlev <zaa@zaa.pp.ru> Revision Changes Path 1.80 +14 -0 ports/print/freetype2/Makefile _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"