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

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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




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