Re: [ft-devel] Upstreaming freetype diagnostics patches

[Werner LEMBERG]

Felipe,


thanks for your enthusiasm.  However, it seems that you have missed
some discussion on the FreeType lists, as Hin-Tak has already pointed
out.

> > HinTak's patches simply benefit from those error-detection
> > routines by providing an API that informs a user application about
> > those errors (so that FontVal, for instance, can report them in a
> > font testing log).
> 
> That's roughly correct between b06 up to b54.  You should also bear
> in mind that a patch went into FreeType 2.6.1, on ComputeMetrics,
> and there was a whole year of thinking, between the ComputeMetrics
> patch, before b06.  Things gets simple, if you spend a year thinking
> about it, before doing.

:-)

> I do feel that you are trying to monopolize others' time again to
> explain issues to you.

Mhmm, don't be so harsh.

Felipe, you have to be aware that the target of FreeType is *not* font
validation.  For this reason some errors necessary by FontValidator
will never be reported by FreeType, which instead tries to understand
even malformed fonts as much as possible.

If Hin-Tak comes up with more patches I will gladly incorporate them.


    Werner