[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Chris Roccati]

On 11 Sep 2006, at 12:41 , Diego Biurrun wrote:

> I think it's time to deprecate the bitmap font support and move to
> FreeType.  We can start by removing the font download links from the
> homepage and update the documentation to tell people to use TrueType
> fonts instead.  Eventually we could turn off bitmap font support by
> default.
>
> Opinions?

This will create a dependence on an external and optional library  
under MacOS X (and most likely under Win32 too).
This does not sound like a good idea. An OS-Dependent font rendering  
layer which could be adapted to FreeType under unix, ATSUI under  
MacOSX and whatever they use under Win32 is probably a better idea.