Re: Add support for FT_Face cloning

[Tayyab Akram]

Yeah, but I guess there is only one public data structure involved, that is `FT_Face`. We can write comments for it as its not gonna change but we can reorganize the internal ones.

On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 10:48:02 PM GMT+5, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:

> So basically, we need to organize the fields in such a way that they
> reflect their traits.  It can be having a prefix describing the
> trait or organizing like the following:
>
> typedef struct ABC {
>  struct {
>    /* Mutable Properties. */
>  } mutable;
>
>  struct {
>    /* Lazy Properties. */
>  } lazy;
>
>  /* Immutable Properties. */
>  FT_UInt first;
>  FT_UInt second;
> } ABC;

Alas, this is not possible for public structures, which can't be
changed in any way to retain backwards compatibility.

    Werner