Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] [Tuxpaint-maintainers] Tux Paint will now _require_ SDL2_Pango [0.9.30 & beyond]

[Mark K. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi,

> Porters, please double-check that everything still works right.

macOS seems to build and run fine.  Tested in English, Korean, and Japanese.

Mark

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 7:33 PM Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:

>
> Based on research by Pere, it seems that Tux Paint (as recent as
> version 0.9.28) supplied by Debian (and it appears, based on this,
> Ubuntu) does not render some text properly (e.g., Japanese & Arabic).
>
> This is because they are being built _without_ Pango support
> (which, these days, is supplied by the SDL2 port of the "SDL_Pango"
> library, "SDL2_Pango", as maintained by our own Mark Kim, here:
> https://github.com/markuskimius/SDL2_Pango).
>
> To avoid this in the future, and hopefully encourage the Debian
> maintainers to also get SDL2_Pango packaged, so they can keep
> Tux Paint up-to-date as well, I've just removed support for
> building Tux Paint _without_ Pango.  (Rather than detecting it
> is unavailable, and compiling things with "NO_SDLPANGO" #define'd,
> and using different code to render text using "SDL_ttf" library
> as a fallback, it will just refuse to build!)
>
> Porters, please double-check that everything still works right.
>
> Another benefit of this is the removal of a lot of very old code from
> our codebase, most of which has probably not been maintained much
> lately!
>
> Backstory: https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/bugs/268/
> The main commit in question:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/tuxpaint/ci/cef773a69493c7c76073bdd59ac49c5bbde21aa9/
>
> (I also updated the INSTALL docs, and the Requirements webpage,
> to reflect this new reality.  Let me know if I missed anything!)
>
> Thanks all!  I'm hoping to get 0.9.30-rc1 rolled into a tarball
> some time soon!!!
>
> --
> -bill!
> Sent from my computer
>
>
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