Re: [GD-DEVEL] [2.1.0] Bump freetype minimum version to 2.2.0?

Pierre writes:
> 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.
> 
> Is there any objection?
 
 I think it should be ok, even though it adds some hassle for those
 installing gd-2.1.x.

 While there probably are many systems that do not fit the requirement,
 such systems more than likely rely on an older version of gd which would
 not be upgraded anyway. E.g. RHEL3, which is still in widespread use
 (if you need to QA hundreds of pieces of software from dozens of vendors,
 you don't nilly-willy move to the next major release), comes with gd 1.8.4
 and ft 2.1.4. Updating gd would more than likely break things, and one
 would install a newer gd in parallel if it was required. So the same thing
 could be done with freetype. As long as gdlib-config picks up and records
 the correct version, it should be ok.

 (Unless freetype is one of these nasty packages that depend on dozens
  of others. A while ago, I attempted a parallel installation of the
  latest glib2/gtk2 on RHEL3, and got completely lost ...).