RE: Short Roadmap

[Fleischer, Karsten (K.)]

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 also need some documentation on the caching sub-system.

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
>