GNU bug report logs - #34663
remove ftx font backend

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 05:40:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 26.2

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 34663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 34663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: Re: bug#34663: remove ftx font backend
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:55:27 +0200

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 34663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  stefan <at> marxist.se
> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:14:48 +0100
> 
>     >> Can we do something similar for XFT (and flip --with-cairo to
>     >> enabled)?
> 
>     Eli> I understand about enabling Cairo, but what exactly are you proposing
>     Eli> to do with XFT?
> 
> Add an entry to NEWS on master that itʼs deprecated and will be
> removed, and add verbiage to configure telling people to install cairo
> development packages if XFT is detected. That means weʼd remove XFT in
> emacs-29.

But removing XFT basically means we are deprecating non-Cairo builds
on X.  Is that really what we want to do?
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