Re: [ft] Re: [ft-devel] FreeType 2.3.0 release candidate 1 is available

[mpsuzuki]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:42 +0100 (CET)
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>> and please review attached patch for documents.
>
>Committed (with slight modifications).  Please check.

I've checked, your modification improves well, thank you.

>> I was going to add new function FT_GetFileRef_From_Mac_ATSName().
>> If adding new function in release-candidate phase is acceptable,
>> please let me know.  I will do that within 24 hours.
>
>This is fine for me, if it helps to resolve compatibility issues with
>older FreeType versions.

No, FT_GetFileRef_From_Mac_ATSName() won't help the behaviour
compatibility issues with older FreeType2 versions, at all.
It is a public function for (near-)future Mac OS X missing
the functions and data-types that have been announced as deprecated.
On such system missing deprecated Carbon function & data-types,
I cannot provide behaviour-compatible function (of FT_GetFile_xxx),
only I can do is providing a function with similar behaviour
(FT_GetFileRef_xxx) to help the migration.

If adding new symbol in 2.3.0 -> 2.3.1 is better than that in
2.2.1 -> 2.3.0, I will postpone.

# IMHO, FT_GetFileRef_xxx() will be deprecated in long-future.
# The incompatible behaviour issues will continue until Carbon-
# free Mac font support (that I'm working but long work).
# The root of problem was introduced between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6.
# 
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/freetype/freetype2/src/base/ftmac.c?r1=1.15&r2=1.16

Regards,
mpsuzuki