some more issues with the new API

[Stefan Seefeld]

I'v a couple of other issues with FT2 which are mostly
naming and type conventions. One is the following:

FT_Library is defined as a FT_LibraryRec_ *, yet 
function take a pointer to a Library as argument, 
thus you end up with a double indirection. Why is
FT_Library a pointer ?

To make another point clear from one of my last mails:

with your glyph slot approach, you loose thread safety.
You can't dereference the current glyph safely since it
can at any time get invalidated through a parallel call
to Load_Glyph in a different thread. I propose you decouple
glyphs from their faces in that faces still act as a
glyph factory, but they don't return a pointer to an
internal static object, rather they return a heap allocated
object which the caller of Load_Glyph is to delete once he
is done.

Stefan 
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
email: address@hidden

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