Re: backart - default backend?

[Fred Kiefer]

Andrew Ruder wrote:
> What do others think?

I did not change my mind since last October and I don't see any new 
argument in your mail.

Making art the default backend in precompiled packages is fine for me, 
as there we can control the pre-requesits. Having art as the default in 
the source code would require, in my view, that we can test in configure 
that all the required libraries and fonts are available (and fall back 
to xlib if not). As soon as somebody adds this behaviour to the 
configure of back we should switch to art as the default.

For the arguments behind this, please reread the old mails.

Cheers
Fred