On 13 September 2013 00:44, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Igor Stasenko wrote:
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>> On 4 September 2013 03:21, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>>       On 02-09-2013, at 12:45 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>>       > Who, if anyone, is maintaining the FreeType package? Who, if
>> anyone, is using it? It has some rather old methods that nastily over-ride
>> more recent methods in the trunk image. That implies it is
>>       moribund to me.
>>
>> Well it certainly sounds like nobody cares about FreeType. I guess that
>> means nobody will mind as I rewrite some of the low-level font/scanner code
>> and almost certainly break FreeType.
>>
>>
>> (sorry for being late on topic)
>>
>> In Pharo, we certainly do. But FreeType code also needs a decent review
>> and cleanup for sure.
>> The freetype packages is an integral part of pharo base image, and
>> maintained there.
>> As for its plugin, i even managed to fix a bug recently in it.. in
>> primitive which nobody uses though..
>> mainly because i had plans to use it, but i haven't time to play an
>> experiment, yet. (i am still thinking
>> , maybe naively, that FT rendering speed can be improved).
>>
>> Concerning MultiCharacterMeetPainfulDeath**WhenStaringAtIt ... it just
>> impossible to do something with it,
>> especially considering that it used for rendering text, and if you
>> break/change  it , you won't be able to fix it
>> (because the image is using the very same code which you just broke to
>> render all text.. ).
>>
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> Why can't you just create a copy and modify that? That way you won't break
> your image.
>
> that, i think was exactly the reason why we having CharacterScanner and
MultiCharacterScanner in our images
today..
so, rephrasing: "it has been tried once, and it doesn't seems to help" :)


>
> Levente
>
>
>  At least in Pharo, we decided to not even try to do something about it
>> (and as far as i know, nobody tries
>> to do anything for years), instead we decided to write things from
>> scratch,and when it will be ready, throw
>> all this out without a bit of regret.
>>
>>
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>>
>>       tim
>>       --
>>       tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Useful random insult:- Not much to show for four billion years of
>> evolution.
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>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko.
>>
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.
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