Re: backart - default backend?

[Gregory John Casamento]

MJ,

--- MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> > Any or all of the above may be my fault and I'll try to rebuild
> > some things properly (following instructions carefully, taking
> > logs and all that) later today to test, but I'd welcome hearing
> > about advances since November on any of the above.
> 
> Further to the above: I tried, but the current back-art release
> doesn't compile with the current freetype. Reported as bug
> 12009. Looks like it might be fixed in CVS, but I guess it can't
> be enough to affect release dates. After all, freetype 2.1.8 had
> been out for about 5 months already when back 0.9.4 was released.

I'm not sure what you're implying here, but I believe that Alex Malmberg has a
patch for the problem. :)   

Additionally, users CAN download the previous version of freetype and use that
if they have a newer installation of Linux.

> So, I wonder how many non-CVS users use back-art? 

I have a couple of machines that I usually compile the release on, lets see..

Well, I know that the release compiles on my laptop which has SuSE 9.0 on it,
and on my Sun box, which has Solaris 9 on it, and I do use back-art on both, so
I guess there's at least one. :)

> Is it premature to talk about switching defaults?

No.  It's precisely the right time to do so.  Art is simply a more advanced
backend and doesn't suffer from the same issues as xlib.

GJC

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Gregory John Casamento 
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## Maintainer of Gorm (IB Equiv.) for GNUstep.