Subject: Re: bug#34663: remove ftx font backend

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:05:36 +0100

>>>>> On Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:35:27 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:

    >> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
    >> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
    >> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 21:44:41 +0100
    >> 
    >> Now that the emacs-27 branch is cut, perhaps it is time to consider
    >> applying this to master?  I have attached a rebased patch.

    Eli> Yes, but:

    Eli>   . please add a NEWS entry about ftx's removal (in the "Installation
    Eli>     Changes" section)
    Eli>   . please add a NEWS entry on the emacs-27 branch saying that this
    Eli>     font backend is deprecated and will be removed

Can we do something similar for XFT (and flip --with-cairo to
enabled)?

Robert