RE: [ft-devel] Migrating layout table validation code to a new CVSmodule

[Turner, David]

> > However, for general-purpose systems like Unix, where the user is
> > free to update its version of FreeType, or FTValid, it leads to the
> > same problems that we encountered with Pango, fontconfig, etc....
>
> Well, libtool's versioning scheme should prevent chaos.
>

Excuse me for being explicit, but I'd rather poke my eyeballs with a
rusty nail found in cow dung than believe this !

it also forces us to make all FT_BASE functions exported.


> > but it would be a bad idea anyway. Really, the code in
> ftvalid doesn't
> > depend on FreeType anymore, I don't see why you'd want to introduce
> > potential versioning problems on Unix by getting this dependency
> > back.
>
> Code sharing.
>

As said previously, I believe that there are far too little benefits
compared to far too much risks / versioning problems.


> > What's so wrong with distinct libraries, really ?
>
> Nothing, but I would like to understand all implications since I've
> never done such a thing before.  Sorry for being obtrusive.
>
no, don't worry, it's OK :-)


- David
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