Re: [ft-devel] controlling FreeType modules

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I just think that Freetype should remain an engine which takes a
>> font from some source, and uses it to to create outline or bitmap
>> glyphs.  I would not like to see Freetype getting sucked into
>> loading fonts by name (even if that was done by punting off the
>> fontconfig), or gaining any kind of layout capabilities.

Yes.

> But it's what one has to be done for CFR. otherwise someone needs to
> write another library to support CFR, which may has a lot of
> duplicate code to FreeType.

Not necessarily.  It shouldn't be too difficult to provide the
necessary hooks so that a small library for handling composite font
objects on top of FreeType can reuse FreeType's code.


    Werner