Re: new release?

[Werner LEMBERG]

Hello Alexei,


> You used to release a new version around this time of year. What are
> your plans this time around?  Are you waiting for some official
> specs for COLRv1?

Not really for the official specs, but for green light that the COLRv1
stuff is OK to be published as experimental but stable.

Dominik?

> I am happy with the round of QALLOC/QNEW clean-ups, which did not
> produce many fuzzing problems. And the rendering optimizations add
> up to 20%.

Thanks a lot for that!

> I am a bit concerned with 16-bit SDF. It comes in *whatever*
> platform endianness.  It is probably an overkill and 8-bits would
> work just fine because the distance does not have to be expressed in
> "pixels".  For example, it can be scaled to signed [-128,127] with 0
> threshold, or unsigned [0,255] with an arbitrary threshold.  We did
> not have a good discussion on this.

I have no opinion on that.  If you think this should be further
discussed I suggest that you do it now :-)  On the other hand, I
think there *was* some discussion regarding 8bit vs 16bit.  Have you
looked up the freetype-devel mailing list archive?  I seem to remember
that there were good reasons for 16bit.


    Werner