Re: [PATCH] (Draft) Make X11 server-side fonts and Mule suck less.

Aidan> Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Jerry Aidan> James: Aidan> But not to developing on them. Something like the below Aidan> uses variadic macros for debug output if they are *gag* That's even uglier than the non-variadic forms. My preference with respect to macros is to keep them as minimal and portable as possible. I find that the biggest obstacle to working with Ben's code is the godawful thicket of macros that seems to spring up wherever he passes. Aidan> available, otherwise generates legal C89 but no debug Aidan> output. I will be shocked if someone compiling with Aidan> fontconfig support and in need of debug output doesn’t Aidan> have a compiler that can handle variadic macros. You're thinking about this incorrectly. Users don't need debug output, *we* do, and for those users who are as lacking in interest in debug output as you suggest, we enforce it by making debug output the default. Let's not introduce a potential for a build failure unless it really improves things. Let's *definitely* not defeat debugging output on precisely those platforms we have the least information about! -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.