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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The problem that I pointed out at that point is that every extension
> to the set of parsed tables is going to require a new FreeType
> version *and* a new version of the table processing library.  Which
> is painful and hard to coordinate.

I don't mind to move the otvalid code to another library, but
currently it's not used anyway...

> > >   I'd suggest first reworking the current API to hide as
> > >   much details as possible.  [...]
> > 
> > Yes.  Yes.  Yes.  :-)
> 
> I think there was at least a little bit of agreement that the the
> Pango structure of 
> 
>  OTLInfo / OTLRuleset / OTLBuffer 
> 
> would work well for most people.  [...]

Oh, I haven't meant that level but rather one level below.  In case
that we directly operate on the (unparsed) font structure it is
probably necessary to change some things.


    Werner