[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:45:34AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:40:37PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:41:28PM +0200, 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?
> >
> > Agree, though switching from bitmap to ttf fonts means for many people
> > that they will (beides adding a subfont.ttf) have to add subcp=... to
> > their config file.
> > Would be good if they had a way to find out without asking on -users :-)
> 
> Sure, the idea is to make the change gradually, starting by updating the
> documentation.
> 
> OK, since everybody seems to be in favor of this I'll start going over
> the documentation in the next few days.

The documentation has been updated.

Now what about

  TOOLS/subfont-gimp
  TOOLS/subfont-c

I guess they can be removed as well, especially the mega-obsolete
subfont-gimp...

Diego