Re: [ft] ftmac.c

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 12, 2008, at 02:17, address@hidden wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:02:58 +0200 Hartwig Wiesmann wrote:
>
> > I have found two time the file ftmac.cp in the directory structure:
> >
> >  - src/base/ftmac.c
> >  - builds/mac/ftmac.c
> >
> > The one in builds/mac seems to be older than the one in src/base but
> > do I need the one in builds/mac anywhere?
>
> src/base/ftmac.c is only for Mac OS X and does not
> work with Classic MacOS anymore. If you build FreeType
> via command line on Mac OS X, src/base/ftmac.c is used.

Ok, sounds like this is the newer more modern version?

> builds/mac/ftmac.c supports both of Mac OS X and Classic
> MacOS, but it includes countless ifdef conditionals
> and difficult for recent Mac OS X users to maintain.
> If you build FreeType by MPW, builds/mac/ftmac.c is used.

And this is the older legacy version?

> In future, src/base/ftmac.c would be removed and
> builds/mac/ftmac.c would be left, because Mac OS X enables
> to implement important features of ftmac.c with only
> POSIX, and without Carbon frameworks.

Then I don't understand this paragraph. Did you reverse the paths or  
did you mean it that way? Because based on your first two paragraphs,  
I would have thought src/base/ftmac.c is the version that will be  
kept, having had the old pre-Mac OS X code removed, and builds/mac/ 
ftmac.c will eventually go away.