I'm not sure what the deal here is. It's native OS fonts, I think, and also something that hasn't come up to my recollection since Juan gave us a much-nicer-than-we-had (anti-aliased) font from Cuis.

I'd like to see us depend less on host facilities now that we have the Cogs, so I'm biased, but I'd say: go ahead and break it if no one is raising an objection. 

Is this related to the Scratch work, out of curiosity?

On Sep 3, 2013, at 6:21 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> On 02-09-2013, at 12:45 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> Who, if anyone, is maintaining the FreeType package? Who, if anyone, is using it? It has some rather old methods that nastily over-ride more recent methods in the trunk image. That implies it is moribund to me.
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> Well it certainly sounds like nobody cares about FreeType. I guess that means nobody will mind as I rewrite some of the low-level font/scanner code and almost certainly break FreeType.
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