Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter: stem darkening, first rough prototype

[Werner LEMBERG]

>>> FT_LOAD_IGNORE_GLOBAL_ADVANCE_WIDTH changed from one version to
>>> another.  Many other internals of FreeType changed from one version
>>> to another.
>> 
>> Well, yes, but the API stayed the same.
> 
> The API will remain the same if we deprecated the 8 parameters and
> introduce new ones.

This is not correct, since ...

>> [...] If the user sets them explicitly, a compatibility formula
>> should convert the eight-parameter form to the new one.
> 
> Now we are discussing about something so insignificant (judging by
> the estimated number of the users of this API) that this qualifies
> for bike-shedding!

... you are apparently forgetting the `darkening-parameters' property
of `FT_Property_Set', cf. `ftcffdrv.h'.


    Werner