Re: [ft-devel] [FYI] Re: Getting pathname from FT_Face (patch for future discussion)

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 03/16/2010 02:02 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> # One of my concern (except of the code size) is that APIs like
>>> # FT_Get_Path_From_Stream() is a bad idea from the viewpoint of
>>> # software design, and it can encourage badly- designed FT2
>>> # clients. FT_Get_MemInfo_From_Stream() might not be so bad, but it
>>> # could conflict with the philosophy of the encapsulation of
>>> # FT_Stream.
>>
>> I definitely had this concern myself when the Get_Path API was being
>> discussed.  I think the stream meminfo is different however.  And as
>> Werne pointed out, seems like getting the path is also something
>> people find useful anyway (oh and you have no idea how useful it
>> would be for debugging!), so lets add them.
> 
> Since Pango & Cairo & HarfBuzz are the main candidate applications
> which would use such functions, can you provide your ideas how such an
> interface could look like?

I'm in favor of the first API mpsuzuki proposed.

behdad

>     Werner