Feature request for port: www/firefox

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:43:14 -0500, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla  
<wahjava at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi "www/firefox" port maintainer,
>
> I would like to suggest a feature for "www/firefox" port. It'll be great  
> if
> you'll add another OPTION to the port's Makefile for "PANGO support",
> which when user selects, appends "--enable-pango" to the CONFIGURE_ARGS.
>
> All of the sites which contains Indic characters[1] require CTL[2]
> support enabled in rendering engine, which is provided by Pango[3].
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_family
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_Text_Layout
> [3] http://www.pango.org/
>
> If I need to submit a PR for this, I'll submit one.

You don't need to submit a PR, because we already have a PR and it was for  
Seamonkey. It's same for any gecko products.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103529

ahze is going to rework on gecko framework, so I have a feel that he will  
making it more flexible like allow have pango support enable and etc.

Cheers,
Mezz

> TIA
> Ashish Shukla


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