Opened 12 months ago

Last modified 11 months ago

#68434 closed update

freetype: Update to latest version (currently 2.13.2) — at Version 2

Reported by: MrB74 Owned by: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Port: freetype

Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))

Hi

I am wondering when FreeType may be updated to the latest version? The current MacPort installs 2.12.1 which is now over a year old. Scribus would benefit from using a more recent version aligned with the latest harfbuzz 8.2.1 as just released via MacPorts.

thanks
Craig (Scribus)

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 12 months ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Owner: set to ryandesign
Status: new → assigned

comment:2 Changed 12 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Description: modified (diff)
Status: assigned → accepted
Summary: Update FreeType to latest version (currently 2.13.2) → freetype: Update to latest version (currently 2.13.2)

Yes, this update needs to be done. The reason for my delay in doing so is this statement in the release notes of 2.13.0:

This new release brings you a completely updated and enhanced ftinspect demo program, which now combines the functionality of almost all other graphical FreeType demo programs into a single application based on the Qt framework.

Qt of course depends on FreeType, therefore in MacPorts we cannot have FreeType depending on Qt. I have not yet investigated what, if anything, is needed to tell FreeType not to attempt to build this new Qt-based demo program, even if Qt is installed.

Later on, if desired, we could offer that demo program in a subport which would depend on FreeType and Qt.

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