XFree86 fonts from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0
Nicholas Wourms
nwourms@myrealbox.com
Sat Aug 2 00:40:00 GMT 2003
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Can anyone think of any changes to the font packages between 4.2.0 and
> 4.3.0 that would require me to repackage and distribute 4.3.0 font sets?
> If not, I would really like to just leave the current 4.2.0 fonts in
> place since it will save most people from downloading between 15 and 50
> MB of the same stuff. Of course, the version numbers will look a little
> funny, but I think most users would be pleased that they didn't have to
> download the fonts again.
> Of course, if anyone knows otherwise, please speak up now so I don't
> make a terrible mistake.
I know they added a couple more TTF fonts and a few more OTF fonts
(mostly non-latin glyphs tho). You might also want to check the XFree
cvsweb as I'm pretty sure they made some changes to the generic bdf
fonts as well.
Cheers,
Nicholas
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