<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 September 2013 03:21, tim Rowledge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 02-09-2013, at 12:45 PM, tim Rowledge <<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org">tim@rowledge.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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</div>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.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div> <br></div><div>(sorry for being late on topic)<br><br></div><div>In Pharo, we certainly do. But FreeType code also needs a decent review and cleanup for sure.<br></div><div>The freetype packages is an integral part of pharo base image, and maintained there.<br>
</div><div>As for its plugin, i even managed to fix a bug recently in it.. in primitive which nobody uses though..<br>mainly because i had plans to use it, but i haven't time to play an experiment, yet. (i am still thinking<br>
</div><div>, maybe naively, that FT rendering speed can be improved).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Concerning MultiCharacterMeetPainfulDeathWhenStaringAtIt ... it just impossible to do something with it,<br></div><div>especially considering that it used for rendering text, and if you break/change it , you won't be able to fix it <br>
</div><div>(because the image is using the very same code which you just broke to render all text.. ). <br></div><div>At least in Pharo, we decided to not even try to do something about it (and as far as i know, nobody tries<br>
</div><div>to do anything for years), instead we decided to write things from scratch,and when it will be ready, throw<br></div><div>all this out without a bit of regret.<br></div><div> <br></div><div><br><br></div><div> </div>
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tim Rowledge; <a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org">tim@rowledge.org</a>; <a href="http://www.rowledge.org/tim" target="_blank">http://www.rowledge.org/tim</a><br>
</div>Useful random insult:- Not much to show for four billion years of evolution.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Igor Stasenko.
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