Freetype 2.1.9, Mozilla and Firefox [was Re: mozilla app patches]

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Viernes, 4 de Marzo de 2005 03:29, Dejan Lesjak escribió:
> On Friday 04 of March 2005 00:43, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> > | Would you rather have this as a followup to ports/68747 or a
> > | separate PR superceding 68747?
> >
> > Separate PR.
>
> ports/78385
>
> > | Should revisions of mozilla and firefox be bumped?
> >
> > Only is the ABI has changed (and it sounds like it hasn't).  If
> > Mozilla and Firefox will continue to operate just fine with the new
> > freetype2, then PORTREVISIONs don't need to be bumped.
>
> I have here Freetype 2.1.9. I've grabbed Mozilla package from
> Marcuscom and Firefox package from ftp.freebsd.org and they run fine.
> Therefore I didn't bump revisions in patch.
>
> > | Oh and in case you don't like names of patches do tell :) -
> > | namely
> >
> > this adds
> >
> > | extra-patch2-nsSVGLibartGlyphMetricsFT.cpp
> > | and
> > | patch-bugzilla149334
> > | (it is attachment number of bugzilla entry #234035).
> >
> > No, the names sound fine, and tell us that these patches can go
> > away when the bug is integrated.
>
> I hope that what I wrote in PR about this makes sense (namely these
> patches were not integrated in development CVS of Mozilla - different
> approach has been taken as explained in bugzilla - unfortunately this
> doesn't help stable versions, mozilla-devel port on the other hand
> compiles fine with new Freetype without modifications).
>

For your information, mozilla and mozilla-devel are really very 
diferent. While 1.7.x is the old 'seamonkey' 1.8.x will be the 'suite' 
app of the AVIARY era.

There is a 1.7.6 in the works, but with minor changes over 1.7.5

>
> Dejan

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