Re: Infinality removal (Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 209, Issue 11)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

If it is all the same to you, I'd prefer it to say, but I guess I'll end up maintaining a revert in the FontVal fork. There is incentive in the FontVal backend to keep this, to match the Microsoft rastering backend.

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Today's Topics:

  1. Infinality removal (Alexei Podtelezhnikov)

Dear FreeType community,

We have just committed a forewarning about Infinality removal.

- TrueType interpreter version 38  (aka Infinality)  that was  first

  introduced about 10 years ago  in FreeType 2.4.11  is now deprecated

  and slated  to be removed in the next version.  TrueType interpreter

  version 40  has been  FreeType's default version  for  6 years now and

  provides an excellent alternative.  This is the last FreeType version

  with TT_INTERPRETER_VERSION_38 and TT_INTERPRETER_VERSION_40 treated

  differently.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/commit/5e48c88d57a89ea7a4fda1b31f4b7fb756dd1732

Please voice any concerns that you might have with this impending change.