Re: Autohinter project for GSoC

[Brad Neimann]

Hi Werner,

> > Although I am curious to know— what fraction of the time would you
> > estimate various stages to take? From what I understand, it sounds
> > like roughly 50% would involve designing the database and 50%
> > implementing it, but it’s hard for me to know.
> My gut feeling says it's about 30% design and 70% implementation.
> Most likely, it is an iterative process, i.e., the first try will
> fail, the second try will probably work so-so, the third try gives
> mostly good results with some prominent errors, etc., etc.

After thinking about this, I believe I will not be able to do this 
project. I would still be very interested in contributing to FreeType at 
some point, but for GSoC the timing on my side just doesn’t work out. 
Thanks for all your help with this!

Regards,
Brad