Re: [ft-devel] Starting work on the OpenType code

[Werner LEMBERG]

> - I'm also not very fond of putting the 'otvalid' module within
>   FreeType, but Werner's work is valuable in at least one scenario:
>   someone using FreeType with ICU, which provides its own C++
>   OpenType parser that doesn't perform a single check with regards
>   to table validity.

Well, this has been discussed a longer time ago, and we agreed on
having OT validation as a module.  IMHO, FreeType *is* the right
place: A library which accesses OT tables directly without parsing
them in advance needs completely different structures and access
methods, so code sharing isn't possible.

> - If you intend to rework the internals later to parse the tables
>   directly, I'd suggest first reworking the current API to hide as
>   much details as possible.  This would allow you later to make
>   drastic changes without requesting yet another big change to both
>   Pango and Qt.

Yes.  Yes.  Yes.  :-)


    Werner