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Re: [ft-devel] FreeType patches to support amalgamation


From: Vinnie
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] FreeType patches to support amalgamation
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:19:27 -0800 (PST)

> From: Alan Coopersmith <address@hidden>

>
> Using anything but a shared library for FreeType just seems to be begging
> for pain everytime FreeType has to issue a security fix or other critical
> fix, and suddenly you need to redeliver every single application with the
> FreeType code embedded, instead of one common update to a shared library.

This is true in the general case, and specific to applications which allow
a font to be chosen by the user or programmatically but almost always false
where the use-case is a statically linked FreeType in conjunction with fonts
embedded in the host application and not changable by the user.



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