Re: [Devel] Bad problems due to function renaming

[Werner LEMBERG]

> 1. compile an app (pango or qt3 or whatever) with freetype 2.0.9
> start it on a system with freetype 2.1.x: unresolved symbols
> (FT_Seek_Stream which has been 'replaced' by FT_Stream_Seek).

I thought that Owen has answered that already: Pango intentionally
uses internal functions of FreeType for various reasons; you thus
*can't* upgrade FreeType without recompiling Pango itself.

> If the API hasn't changed, what the hell is going on?

See above.  Programs which only depend on FreeType (and which don't
use internal functions) will work OK.

> Important is, that things like these should not happen and should be
> taken care of in the future.

I fully agree.  Owen, any suggestion?  Tim is the first one who
complains about this particular problem...  To be more specific, he is
the first who complains on the FreeType list about this problem :-)


    Werner