Re: [RESEND] free xc/lib/font/fontfile/decompress.c replacement

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:42:20PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

>since I'm a BSD developer, the natural place to look for me regarding
>the xc/lib/font/fontfile/decompress.c sources (Keith Packard said it
>was derived from some ancient BSD sources) is our own source tree.
>
>Voilà, there it is - src/usr.bin/compress/zopen.c, that's why the
>decompress.c source looked so familiar to me.

Yes, historically I believe that this zopen.c is derived from from the
older decompress.c.

>I've taken a whole afternoon hacking this together, and tested it
>on a "foo.bdf.Z" file (about 400 KiB compressed), derived from
>xc/fonts/bdf/misc/12x13ja.bdf, with one character modified so I
>can distinguish it. Works For Me(tm), but I'd be happy if someone
>would review and endorse this replacement before it gets committed,
>since I have absolutely no experience hacking X11 code, I must admit.

I don't have the time right now to give it a thorough review, but I
wouldn't object to committing it provisionally to XFree86 to give it
wider exposure.

>I've tested mkfontdir on the file, which is dynamically linked
>against libXfont.so.1.5 (thus I guess it's safe), but had not yet
>the chance to do a full XFree86 rebuild due to day-job constraints.
>
>The new file comes with only a standard 3-clause UCB-style licence,
>some more credits, and a much easier licence covering my work. I do
>believe it's OSD and DFSG compliant and GNU GPL compatible; supporting
>compress'd font files gives us an advantage over x.org, which is
>something I'd like to see ;-) Also it's important in case there is
>still an ancient Unix® around.

:-)

David