Re: I'm back

[Vincent Torri]

Hello

not a pressure issue, but i would like to have VF driver. A Summer of
Code task has begun, never finished, though.

about build system, i would say meson only for Windows, Linux, BSD*
and Solaris, and no change for the other OS. That would simplify the
build system. are Jamfiles really useful these days ? In addition,
having a lot of build system is a pain to have them always up to date

best regards

Vincent Torri

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:02 PM David Turner <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello freetype-devel@ list members,
>
> It's been a very very long time, but I have some free time in the coming 
> weeks to work on FreeType. Werner invited me to write a small announcement 
> here and I'm currently looking at the official bugs list.
>
> I'd like to know what are, in your opinion, the most pressing issues to work 
> on at that point?
>
> Apart from that, I had the following things in mind:
>
> - Improving / refactoring the build system a little. E.g. it should be 
> possible to simplify the rules.mk/module.mk files considerably, and 
> auto-generate most of the Makefiles / Jamfiles / CMakefiles from a single 
> source of truth (exact format to be defined), at least the parts that deal 
> with the headers / sources / configuration headers and the module 
> dependencies.
>
> - Improve testing (unit and regression tests to be exact) There are lots of 
> possibilities here, and it will probably better to do this in small 
> incremental steps.
>
> Voila, I'd be happy to read your suggestions, Happy to be here.
>
> - David Turner