[Image-SIG] PIL ImageFont segfault mystery

[Donn]

Fredrik,
 I dropped off the Internet (I have a fragile ISP :( ) and did not get your 
mail until a moment ago. Thanks for looking at this. 

 I am not at all informed about how patches get used and, more importantly, 
how they make their way into the final repos used by distros. Is there any 
way to get _imagingft.c fixed so that old users worldwide get an update, or 
will this fix only come out in new versions of PIL from this point on?

 I ask because I am facing a choice of 1) just waiting and using my short time 
to code my app then relying on the fix being "out there", or 2) Trying to 
grok and compile PIL and then house it in a sub-directory of my app and 
distribute it as a "module" within my app.

Thanks for the help!
\d

PS: Not to muddy the waters, but PIL is the only effective FT2 interface for 
Python and I was wondering if it would be possible to expose more meta 
information about fonts than family and style? There are other snippets of 
info in there like number of faces, copyright, foundry and so forth. Would it 
be possible to add these too?