FW: [ft-devel] Revisiting LSB

[Fujinaka, Todd]

Oops. I meant to send this to the mailing list.

>>-----Original Message-----
>> On Behalf Of Turner, David
>>
>>> > 1. What modules should we include in LSB to begin with?
>>>
>>> I don't see a reason to exclude a module.
>>>
>>I can see several reasons:
>>
>>some modules are still experimental and not well tested. I'm thinking
>>primarily about the "otvalid" and "gxvalid" ones used to perform
>>validation of OpenType tables.
>>
>>we have no guarantee that the current implementations aren't secure,
>>i.e. that they will never produce false positives that may introduce
>>security bugs. During my latest cleanup of the sources, I've spotted
>>a few problematic points, noted with an "XXX" comment, where some
>>things are not done properly.
>>
>>another example is the PFR font driver, which certainly isn't
necessary
>>on a Unix system.
>
>I'm fairly new to freetype (except as a user) and I have some questions
on
>documentation. Is "The design of FreeType2" kept up-to-date? We used it
as
>a reference to find interfaces into the library, but I just noticed the
>copyright date is 1998-2000.
>
>The other reference I was using was the API reference on the web, but
it
>doesn't mark the interfaces as "experimental." Should I use the docs in
the
>source tarball? The interfaces aren't marked "experimental" there,
either.
>In fact, a quick grep for "experimental" in the source mainly shows
things
>in the Changelog.
>
>Thanks,
>Todd