Re: [ft-devel] FreeType patches to support amalgamation

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Vinnie <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:02:43 -0500
>
>> From: Alexei Podtelezhnikov <address@hidden>
>>
>> You planing this for Stone Age people who do not know how to use
>> make. I rest my case.
>
> Actually, that is true.
>
> My target audience includes musicians or artists who are beginning
> to dabble in C / C++ programming. The are predominantly using
> XCode on Mac OS X, with the remainder on Windows with a free
> copy of Visual Studio Express.

It is hard to believe that there are people who'll dive into font rendering
without first learning how to use multiple files and libraries in a project.
It is easier to teach them about libraries anyway. Freetype is available
on MacOS as a library. Why not use it?