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Re: [pygame] freetype module
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Marcus von Appen <mva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On, Fri Jan 14, 2011, Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
>> an extension module. Using pango is just an idea. It may turn out
>> building pango on Windows is too involved to be practical. Any thoughts?
>
> Pulling in pango means pulling in Glib20 and friends. Personally I would
> not recommend that.
Just my 2 euro cents;
I'm using a pango wrapper in my pygame based "childsplay" project but
for the windows
version we disable the Glib20 stuff as it's impossible to get pango
running properly on windows (XP/Vista).
So I agree with Marcus that it would be a bad idea.
Regards,
Stas Zytkiewicz
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