Re: XFree86 modularization

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:25:39PM -0700, Torrey T. Lyons wrote:
> Here's a counter example: In recent history this would have caused 
> great difficulties on Darwin/Mac OS X with Freetype. Freetype is 
> largely only installed on Mac OS X as part of XFree86. Although 
> Freetype supports Mac OS X, the Freetype team has no committers with 
> a Mac OS X box. Until a few days ago you could not even build 
> standard Freetype on Mac OS X using gcc but had to use a proprietary 
> compiler.

That doesn't make a lot of sense.  Fixing fontconfig doesn't get easier
just because it's in a different tree.  And if there's a small delay
in getting fontconfig working on $PLATFORM you can just tell people
they'll have to get a patch from somewhere in the meanwhile.