Hi -
I'm sure most of you have seen what I've been up to on the weekend. I did a round of integration work on Freetype in order to make its installation and uninstallation just as simple as Shout. Plus, there have already been some changes to font rendering in the trunk that interact with Freetype's overrides in problematic ways and I really want to give this stuff even more of a make-over which would make the problem only worse.
The current status is that outside of the FreeTypePlus core classes you need two additional extension methods, BitBlit(GrafPort)>>installFreeTypeFont:... and BitBlt>>copyBitsColor:alpha:gammaTable:ungammaTable:. I've left these with Freetype since they are "classic" extension methods (that is they add functionality that is required by Freetype but doesn't affect anything else).
Other than that there are no further extensions or overrides of the core packages necessary. All of the core font stuff has been merged and the only other thing needed is to tell Squeak where to find the new fonts. I've cheated a little on that one by providing a hook that allows replacing the font chooser with one that knows how to deal with Freetype fonts, i.e., after installing Freetype you can simply execute "FontChooserTool default: FontChooser" and it will take the FontChooser from Freetype and give you access to the Freetype fonts.
Andy - I'm curious if you would consider moving these extensions and overrides out of the Freetype and into some FreetypePatches packages (just like you have with the PinesoftEnhancementsForFreetype). This would allow us to load a straight version of Freetype into trunk images without the fear of conflicts.
Cheers, - Andreas