[Pkg-fonts-devel] Any reason for building FontForge without FreeType BCI?

Christian PERRIER bubulle at debian.org
Wed Jul 18 00:22:19 UTC 2012


Quoting Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny at eglug.org):
> I just noticed that FontForge is being built with
> --with-freetype-bytecode=no (unless built for Ubuntu), is that
> intentional or just a left over from when FreeType byte code
> interpreter was disabled by default because of the patent issues?


Very likely to be the latter. However, please don't do this now as it
wouldn't meet the freeze criteria.


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