Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Ubuntu

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 12:29:39AM +0000, Caroline Ford wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 16:12 -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> > 
> > SDL_pango is, unfortunately, not being used with the Text Tool at the moment.
> > I still need to figure out how, if at all, that would be possible.
> > I may need to use Pango directly.
> 
> It's a build dependency though, and stops 0.9.18 running on slightly
> older systems such as Ubuntu dapper. What's it being used for?

SDL_pango is being used to render the UI text (prompts, button labels, etc.)
SDL_ttf was simply not robust enough to handle the more complex languages,
like Telugu or Arabic.

You can build _without_ Pango, though.  Shin-Ichi did this for older Fedoras.
John is going to do it for older Windowses.  Check INSTALL.txt. :)

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