Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <000b01c0fdf2$e0ecc460$b0aa313f@sigmund> Reply-To: "Soren Andersen" From: "Soren Andersen" To: "Cygwin List" Subject: FreeType lib, Cygwin/X11 project, users loose? Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:48:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Charles, I started to add this as a postscript to my earlier reply regarding bdb, then decided not to overload that message. Some time ago I found out that: AFAIK, libttf/FreeType _v1_ is *not* being made available by the cygwin/X11 contingent. I have read some archived 'exchanges' concerning that ... but what's in Cyg/X11 now is Freetype **v2**, not v1 -- as many people may know, they changed the API significantly and some applications want only v1 (haven't been rewritten to the FreeType2). IMO, again, you need not have / should not have pulled FreeType v1 from the downloads on your site. I dislike seeing sincere and hard-working volunteers like yourself dissed and discouraged in your efforts based on some other people's egotism and /or sense of territoriality or bureaucratic rigidity. Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/