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Re: Building on Solaris?

To: bodhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ang Bodhi)
Subject: Re: Building on Solaris?
From: jlim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan Lim)
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:16:50 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: info-inventor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <39A17CB5.227C3F81@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Ang Bodhi" at Aug 22, 2000 03:02:13 AM
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On Mon Aug 21 12:02:13 2000, bodhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Does this mean libFL will eventually be replaced by Freetype
> alone, or will Freetype be just one of the candidates to replace

I mean the latter, but it is really up to the community to decide. There are at
least two other components of the software in a similar situation: the image
I/O library currently served by libimage and the NURBS tessellator.

> libFL? I ask this because if it is the former, this would mean FL
> code in SoText3 must be replaced, and if it is the later, then

SoAsciiText and SoText2 also use FL code.

> possibly a FL interface must be provided for each font library
> candidate such as Freetype, right?

I think there is enough information in So*Text* and flclient.h to do this.

> Ang Bodhi


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