Antony Blakey wrote:
On 20/10/2008, at 10:48 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:
Well for one thing it requires then implementing the freetype plugin
on the iPhone, so it's a barrier to entry for VM developers who are
dealing with platforms that may or may not
have freetype on them to enable the running of a pharo image.
In that is the case, then I think a stated requirement for Pharo should
be a list of platforms, or an explicit statement that it must be usable
without FreeType.
I would vote for the latter.
I would vote strongly against leaving out Squeak's "native" text
rendering. With Squeak native I mean a method to render text without any
external libraries, e.g. for systems like SqueakNOS, bare metal systems etc.
What needs to be done is a proper refactoring of the text, font and text
style system so the different rendering mechanisms are easily
interchangeable and transparent to the programmer.
Michael
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