Motion: include AGG freetype (2.4 version) in MapServer

[Sean Gillies]

Howard Butler wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've come around to thinking that the only way we can limit the  
> configuration/building issues we are about to inflict on our users  
> with AGG is to include the freetype stuff in MapServer's source.  It  
> seems many of the distros are treating the AGG freetype  
> inconsistently.  Just building AGG because of its spartan build setup  
> is quite a chore.  Hacking makefiles, compile targets, and link lines  
> to get what is needed is just too much.
> 
> I propose we take the GDAL "thirdparty" approach and put the AGG  
> freetype stuff in ./thirdparty/agg and update MapServer's configure/ 
> make system to always use that.  We have done something similar in  
> the past with GD, right?  If so, this approach would not be  
> unprecedented.
> 
> Howard
> 

I disagree. One of the tenets of Open Source is that people collaborate 
on software and fork only as a last resort. Why not contribute 
improvements to AntiGrain? I thought I read that the author was going to 
grant a GPL exception explicitly to MapServer.

Sean