Re: including fontconfig utilities to windows binary packages

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Wed, 2 May 2018, Ethan A Merritt via gnuplot-beta wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 7:56:54 PM PDT Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>> I propose that we include fontconfig utilities to windows binary packages.
>
> I do not know how fontconfig works on Windows.
>
> On linux fontconfig keeps track of all the fonts installed on the system,
> so installing it for only one program would not make sense.
> If you include fontconfig with a gnuplot binary for Windows, would you
> also have to include lots of fonts?  If so I don't think we want to do that.

No, surely not. And insofar as we're talking about terminals based on 
the pango/cairo/glib stack on Windows, there's no need to involve 
fontconfig (or freetype) at all. The pango backends that are needed 
are just Cairo and Win32 (the Win32 backend being an alternative to 
freetype + fontconfig that taps into native Windows font management).

Allin Cottrell