Server side text layout (was Re: [forum] some XFree86 5.0 questions...)

[Alan Coopersmith]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> We've just finished spending two years moving millions of lines of
> code *that Sun has just shipped* over to fontconfig/Xft/Pango. Do we
> want to do that again?

Actually, while Sun's GNOME 2.0 release does use pango, I don't beleive
we've shipped a single line of code yet that uses fontconfig/Xft.  It's
certainly not in our GNOME 2.0 release.  Whether or not converting again
makes sense depends on whether there are enough benefits to make it
worthwile, just as that had to be decided when converting to pango originally.

The Xft bridge provides backwards compatibility for those who think the cost
of converting old code outweighs the benefits of converting code directly to
STSF, but that there is value in using STSF.

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