Re: [GD-DEVEL] [2.1.0] Bump freetype minimum version to 2.2.0?
[email protected] (Frank Warmerdam)
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Pierre wrote: > Hi, > > While working on a bug (http://bugs.libgd.org/?do=details&task_id=42), > I came across one of my todo for gd-2.1.0. I like to set the minimum > Freetype version to 2.2.0 instead of 2.x. > > Freetype stable branche is 2.3.0 now, 2.2.x is a couple of years old > and contains many critical fixes. It wil help a lot to clean up our > encoding support as well as improve the rendering quality. Pierre, I see my moderately recent system is still using freetype 2.1.7, so I would have to say 2.2.0 is far from universal. Were there some things that you can't do if the minimum version is 2.1? Other than encouraging people to use a newer safer version of freetype, was there a reason to raise the minimum required version? I normally try to only raise the minimum required version for dependencies when I have a fairly comepelling reason to use new functions not available in older versions. So, I'd have to say I mildly object pending a somewhat stronger reason for the change. Best regards, ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [email protected] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org