[Devel] Re: [Freetype] Its Essay Time..

[Werner LEMBERG]

> 1. What is the greatness of Freetype over Pango?

This is comparing apples with oranges.  Pango is a library on top of
FreeType.

> 2. How is Freetype superior to libXFt2 and X11 font server?

???  There seems to be a major misunderstanding.  libXFt2 uses
FreeType to provide font services to X11.

> 3. What functionality of Freetype does Pango, libXFt2 and X11 font
> server use?

Virtually everything.

> 4. What will be the advantage of building a language support system
> (similar to that of pango) for Freetype when pango already provides
> that?

Pango is heavily based on glib.  For embedded systems, glib can't be
used since tight memory situations must be handled gracefully.  The
idea is not to reinvent the wheel but to take the best of Pango and
ICU, producing something which has a small memory footprint and a
well-defined behaviour if memory is exhausted.


    Werner