Fujinaka, Todd
Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:25:16 -0700
Oops. I meant to send this to the mailing list. >>-----Original Message----- >> On Behalf Of Turner, David >> >>> > 1. What modules should we include in LSB to begin with? >>> >>> I don't see a reason to exclude a module. >>> >>I can see several reasons: >> >>some modules are still experimental and not well tested. I'm thinking >>primarily about the "otvalid" and "gxvalid" ones used to perform >>validation of OpenType tables. >> >>we have no guarantee that the current implementations aren't secure, >>i.e. that they will never produce false positives that may introduce >>security bugs. During my latest cleanup of the sources, I've spotted >>a few problematic points, noted with an "XXX" comment, where some >>things are not done properly. >> >>another example is the PFR font driver, which certainly isn't necessary >>on a Unix system. > >I'm fairly new to freetype (except as a user) and I have some questions on >documentation. Is "The design of FreeType2" kept up-to-date? We used it as >a reference to find interfaces into the library, but I just noticed the >copyright date is 1998-2000. > >The other reference I was using was the API reference on the web, but it >doesn't mark the interfaces as "experimental." Should I use the docs in the >source tarball? The interfaces aren't marked "experimental" there, either. >In fact, a quick grep for "experimental" in the source mainly shows things >in the Changelog. > >Thanks, >Todd _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel