[squeak-dev] fonts, characterscanners and dead primitive 103

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Thu Sep 12 22:44:22 UTC 2013


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.
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> 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.
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> (sorry for being late on topic)
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> 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).
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> Concerning MultiCharacterMeetPainfulDeathWhenStaringAtIt ... 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.. ).

Why can't you just create a copy and modify that? That way you won't break 
your image.


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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