Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2017.05.30 at 08:48 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> >> Distributions regularly apply patches to packages to suit their own
> >> needs.  I don't see any problem here.  Honestly, I think that the
> >> number of single users who compile Firefox or Chrome from scratch
> >> is quite limited, thus the impact of this change is rather low –
> >> it's not released yet!  Additionally, new releases of Firefox or
> >> Chrome are *much* more frequent than FreeType releases.
> > 
> > No, it will impact all Chrome/Chromium/Firefox users once distros
> > update to the next freetype version.
> 
> You think that distributions will do an update to FreeType 2.8.1 (to
> be released in a few months, I guesstimate) *before* they do an update
> to Chrome or FreeType?  I consider this very unlikely.

Then what about all these electron apps like vscode? They use an old
Chromium version internally and update it only very rarely:
https://ibb.co/miFg3F

So all I'm saying is that this patch will cause many problems and I
don't think the gains are worth the pains.

-- 
Markus