[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:51:00AM +0200, Chris Roccati wrote:
> 
> 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).

Well, (correct me if I'm wrong) isn't FreeType available on almost all
platforms, including Mac OS X and Windows?

> 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.

Sounds a bit like reinventing the wheel to me.  Would you wish to
implement such a thing?

Diego