Re: [AD] Inclusion of alfont in the Allegro 4 repository and releases

[Tobias Hansen <thansen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/04/2012 02:48 AM, Peter Wang wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:27:02 +0100, Tobias Hansen<thansen@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > alfont is still used by many Allegro 4 projects. Unfortunately the
> > homepage with the most recent version is offline since quite some time
> > (see mirror [1]). There have been at least four different homepages for
> > alfont over the years. Some new patches are floating around, but there
> > is no place to collect them. What do you think about including it in the
> > Allegro 4 repository and releasing it with Allegro 4? It's the obvious
> > place to look for it and that way noone would have to prepare releases
> > just for alfont. Also, I think about packaging it for Debian and would
> > prefer if there were a place to collect patches.
> >
> > I'm CCing some people who have worked on alfont.
> Sorry, alfont code is really ugly and poorly packaged (bundled 3rd party
> libraries).  I wouldn't want to be responsible for maintaining it in the
> Allegro repository.
>
> Peter

It's not necessary to include the bundled libraries. I could prepare the 
commits in a clone of your repository if that would help.