* Mike McCormack mike@codeweavers.com [10/04/06, 21:23:21]:
maybe the configure script should check the fontforge version, to be at least from 2006. My fontforge: "Executable based on sources from 20:17 6-Apr-2006-ML.". Checking for "Executable based on sources from (.+) (.+)-(.+)-2006" in `fontforge --version` should be enough.
The configure tests should test the capability of FontForge to build fonts as Wine requires them, not for a specific version.
I agree here. Unlike Gentoo users, I don't get regular package version updates in my distribution, so I still have a fontforge 20050803, which seems to work just fine. This would fail the configure check proposed in an earlier mail. Unless someone really wants to test at exactly which day fontforge started doing the things wine needs, the configure check has to check for capabilities. This has the upside of being extensible should our requirements change.
Cheers, Kai