Re: [ft-devel] On the impact of installing the next FreeType release on a typical Unix distribution

[Werner LEMBERG]

> - immediately freeze development on the current code base
> 
> - perform a massive diff between the content of
>   "include/freetype/internal" between the 2.1.10 release and the
>   current CVS, and study how we can stub each type, field and
>   function defined here.
> 
> - do the required modifications, encapsulating each of the "old"
>   internals in a configuration macro
>   (e.g. FT_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_INTERNALS)
> 
> - test, test, test, on existing installations. Preferabbly ones with
>   old releases of fontconfig/libXft/Pango/Qt/etc...
> 
> - release something stable as early as possible.
> 
> Any comments ?

Sounds good.  We should mention in the docs that these steps are
performed only *once*, and that we are not going to maintain those
hacks.


    Werner