Re: cairo now default?

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:49:46 +0000, Colin Baxter <address@hidden> said:
    >>> Itʼs better than the alternative, which is libXft, which is
    >>> unmaintained and causes crashes.

    Colin> Ok, so be it.

    Colin> I still think this change, as it stands, is going to catch
    Colin> out a fair number of users. We will see.

    > Why? Xft and Cairo should have the same font support, apart from
    > bitmap fonts. Only people who've messed with font-backend might
    > have issues, and there should be not be too many of those.

I was thinking of a rather more mundane reason. For example, although
Debian 9.11 has the right version of the harfbuzz dev library, Debian
8.11 doesn't. To me, Debian 8.11 does seem that old.

Best wishes,