Hi Werner,
> May I suggest that we postpone this discussion and work on fixing the
> list of exported functions first? This seems to be a more urgent task
> to me which probably identifies other problems/benefits of services.
> It basically means the following:
>
> . Write a script which collec
> > > To make finding a service faster, we can use integers as service
> > > id, instead of strings.
> >
> > Do you really think that this is of great importance? Strings are
> > more user-friendly IMHO.
>
> We now call "FT_FACE_FIND_SERVICE( GLYPH_DICT )" to find a service.
> After the change, w
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:11:21PM +0200, David Turner wrote:
David, I've added your address to the freetype-devel list (without
receiving mails).
> An exported service is like an exported function call, once get
> exported, it allows no change.
May I suggest that we postpone this discussion a
Hi everyone,
"services" are an _implementation_ detail of FreeType 2. They're not
strictly necessary since you could provide the same thing with a lot
of #ifdef in a monolithic engine. I just find them more convenient
to structure the engine.
the "wrapper" functions are here to protect the users
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:11:21PM +0200, David Turner wrote:
> the "wrapper" functions are here to protect the users of the service's
> implementation details. They have various advantages:
>
> - they expose a "clean" API that doesn't depend on internals of
> the font engine. Allowing us to rede
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:39:13PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > There are some functions which are wrappers to services. Then why
> > not simply export the services to clients?
> Please give an example how you would like to rearrange services.
For example, we can export WINFNT. Then instead o
> There are some functions which are wrappers to services. Then why
> not simply export the services to clients?
Please give an example how you would like to rearrange services.
> To make finding a service faster, we can use integers as service id,
> instead of strings.
Do you really think tha
Hi,
There are some functions which are wrappers to services. Then why not
simply export the services to clients?
The idea is, we let modules decide which services, among those they
provide, to export. For a exported service, it should provide headers,
not depending on internal headers, to descr
