great!  No wait, not so great :-(.  I get an error on loading due to an Undeclared FT2Library in updateFromFileSystem or some such.  This looks like mis-ordered initialization to me.  Do I have write permission to that repository?

I have some fixes for the FT2Library.  I'm also hampered by the SmartSyntaxPlugin's insistence that the classes ued in its parameter specs be present in the image.  This makes splitting the FreeTypePlugin from the FreeType package (something that IMO is a very good thing to do) is impossible.  I may try and change SmartSyntaxPlugin to make those classes being present optional.