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Re: [pygame] 1.7 releases?

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Subject: Re: [pygame] 1.7 releases?
From: Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:40:41 +1000
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Yeah, changing the default font is probably a bad idea now.

It's easy enough to use other fonts though.

On 7/28/05, Joe Wreschnig <piman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:47 +1000, Richard Jones wrote:
> > I'd like to politely enquire about the 1.7 release schedule. How's it
> > going? :)
> >
> >
> > What are the chances of replacing the horrid default font with the Bitsream
> > Vera Sans font? Mmm. Anti-aliased font by default. Monospace and
> > Proportional. Yummy.
> 
> 1) Including a different default font would break all existing
> applications, since the current default has slightly different metrics
> than anything else.
> 
> 2) The Bitstream font license is questionable; it certainly doesn't fit
> with the rest of the Pygame license (LGPL) very well.
> 
> Neither one prevents us from including it with Pygame, but it shouldn't
> be something default or mandatory.
> --
> Joe Wreschnig <piman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
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- [pygame] 1.7 releases?
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- Re: [pygame] 1.7 releases?
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