On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >Date: 21 Oct 2003 18:41:54 +0200 >From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Re: libfreetype-xtt2 bench > >>> What exactly are you arguing with ? > >DD> The notion you expressed that adding features to the freetype backend >DD> goes against a goal of encouraging application developers to move to >DD> client side fonts, > >I never said such a thing. I said that adding features to the >freetype backend goes against a goal of putting core fonts into >maintenance-only mode.
IMHO, if xtt's functionality can be obsoleted by including the same functionality into the freetype module, then there is a lot less code to have to care about, and xtt can be removed. The resulting code will be less to have to maintain, and if it is the only codepath to have to care about, all users will be using it. In that case, presumeably if there are problems, the people who contributed the new changes will be interested in fixing them for their own benefit, and contributing those fixes for future releases. I agree with you that core fonts is something that preferably all developers will move away from, and that that is to be encouraged. I don't think it is fair however to "encourage" this by throwing away useful work that someone has done, or to ignore potential improvements in the code that someone else is interested and/or willing to do. X core fonts may be getting obsolete but they'll be around with us for years to come yet. Best not to be short sighted. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
