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Re: [ft-devel] [PATCH] Re: losing outline flags while auto-hinting
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Alexei Podtelezhnikov |
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Re: [ft-devel] [PATCH] Re: losing outline flags while auto-hinting |
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Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:00:01 -0500 |
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> This has the slight danger that if someone adds a new field to
> FT_Outline, they will forget to copy it here.
Adding fields to a public structure breaks binary compatibility.
This will not happen before FreeType 3. In addition there are other places
that touch individual fields. Again, the key is that the structure us public
and hence frozen. You cannot even move fields around.