Re: Short Roadmap

[David Turner]

Hi Karsten,

> 
> Hi David,
> 
> could you make "ftlayout" available for download on the ftp server? I'm very
> interested in it, but I can't get CVS access because of our company's
> firewall.
> 
I don't think it's a good idea until the thing can really be compiled :-).
Please use ViewCVS instead if you want to look at the code, there isn't a
lot of things for now.

Note that there also is a new module called "mlib", which I use to
gather most font-independent stuff I've written for FT2, in order
to re-use it in other projects like FTLayout and maybe other good
things that will be released later ;-) For now, this thing is
"highly experimental" though..

> I also need some documentation on the caching sub-system.
>
sorry, I can't help you right now, hope to write something about it
in the tutorial though.. Have a look at the sources, especially
the file "ft2demos/src/ftcommon.i" which uses it..

CRegards,

- David

> Karsten
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Turner [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Freitag, 20. Oktober 2000 10:46
> > To: Werner LEMBERG
> > Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> > Subject: Short Roadmap
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > >
> > > > > Is volume 3 of the programmer's guide out yet?
> > >
> > > No.  This is David's task :-)  Unfortunately, he is very busy with
> > > something different (to earn money...)
> > >
> >
> > Well, the good news is that I completed the project you're refering to
> > yesterday, which means I now have a lot more time to complete
> > FreeType,
> > yepee :-)
> >
> > Here's a short road-map for the following weeks:
> >
> >   regarding FreeType 2:
> >
> >      - completing the documentation. which means:
> >
> >          o completing the tutorial (yeah..)
> >
> >          o completing the "docmaker.py" script to generate a clean
> >            and sorted API reference
> >
> >          o adding one or two documents (for example, I've started
> >            one paper describing module management and how to add
> >            your own font driver, I'm pretty certain this will
> >            be interesting to a few people :-)
> >
> >      - completing the cache sub-system. providing a "metrics" cache
> >        as well as better code to cache lots of small items (each cache
> >        node takes about 28 bytes for now, which is a lot if your item
> >        is a monochrome bitmap !!). shouldn't be much work..
> >
> >      - rewriting a native Type 1 hinter.
> >
> >
> >   I have also started working on a text layout library, though it's
> >   still on the very early stage. Its available under the module
> >   name "ftlayout" in the CVS. Note that I'll make a complete
> > announcement
> >   and roadmap for it next week.
> >
> >   I'll be working on documentation and maintenance until at least next
> >   wednesday, then serious work on the t1 hinter and the cache
> > will begin..
> >
> > > > Talk to Werner about coding conventions.  I have been in the code
> > > > long enough now that I almost code to that unspecified
> > standard, but
> > > > Werner will still reformat my patches.  Its OK. :)
> > >
> > > Note that reformatting doesn't mean that I know it so much
> > better than
> > > you all, but it's my way of reading source code.
> > >
> > And as Werner rightly pointed it to me when we last met,
> > re-reading the
> > complete source code is also a good way to check that any stupid bug
> > didn't get in ;-)
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > - David
> >