Re: [Devel] Re: Another approach to mac fonts...

[Dan Williams]

George:

All of them :)  I don't think that darwin can use the Resource-fork 
stuff, and I think that there is a need for pure-Darwin systems to be 
able to open .dfont files with your code.  But its less of a need the 
(2) which you have already done.

Thanks!
Dan

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 01:38  PM, George Williams wrote:

> > why should we not make this code available to other platforms?  I
> I realize I probably am not understanding you.
>
> As I see it there are two real ways freetype can be configured:
>   1) On a mac, the old ftmac code is enabled.
>   2) Everywhere else, my new code is enabled and will read dfonts and 
> macbinaried resource files.
> There is a third case which is unlikely to happen and this is what 
> Werner was asking about:
>   3) On Mac OS/X, if someone didn't want to use the ftmac code, it is 
> possible to enable my new code and if so a small section of code 
> becomes active for that situation alone. That small bit of code will 
> open the resource fork of a file using posix calls rather than Mac OS 
> calls. Since resource forks aren't available on other platforms there 
> would be no point in enabling this code anywhere else.
>
> Now... What code did you want available on what platform?
>
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