On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:29:29PM +0100, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> So, from an interpreter VM, you load both
> - FreeTypePlugin from www.queaksource.com/FreeTypePlugin
> - FreeType from www.squeaksource.com/FreeTypePlus
> and in the second one, you only need FT2Constants
> 
> You are proposing to separate those constants, like in Balloon3D-Constants?

Yes.

> 
> OK, done, it's FreeTypeConstants in the ss3 repo.
> 

Thank you!

CC to vm-dev: This will allow source code generation for the FreeType
plugin without requiring that the entire FreeType package be present
in the image.

Dave

> 
> 2013/10/31 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:59:21PM +0100, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> > > I have created a repository for maintaining the trunk 4.5 branch:
> > >
> > > MCHttpRepository
> > >     location: 'http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/FreeTypePlus'
> > >     user: ''
> > >     password: ''
> > >
> > > FreeType requires a plugin.
> > > It is pre-compiled and distributed with Pharo VM, so it's the easiest way
> > > to test it...
> >
> > The FT2Plugin is built in to the unix interpreter VM.
> >
> > Smalltalk listBuiltinModules select: [:e | 'FT2Plugin*' match: e]
> >    ==> #('FT2Plugin 23 January 2011 (i)')
> >
> > Eliot, perhaps you can add this to your next Cog build also?
> >
> > Nicolas, thanks for setting up the SS3 repository. For VM building, we
> > load FreeTypePlus into the image in order to get the pool variables
> > in FT2Constants. Maybe this can be moved to a package (FreeType-Constants
> > or similar) so that a VMMaker user can load just the constants?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >

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