Re: [ft-devel] Accessing `ft_mem_*' from OT-SVG hooks

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Do you plan runtime selection of SVG library?  This is not very
>> user friendly.  Perhaps it is better to have separate rendering
>> modules for each SVG library, selected at compile time.  I will
>> take a detailed look at your code soon.
> 
> Well, yes, at the moment it is selected at runtime.  Once we decide
> on a default rendering library we could create default hooks, so the
> end user won't need to set them unless they want to plug a different
> library (other than the default one).  And with some modifications
> we can integrate this with the build system so that the default one
> can be switched at compile time.

Yes.

> However, separate rendering modules is a completely different design
> choice.

I think separate modules is overkill.  Who is ever going to use two
different SVG renderers in a single program?  I guess only the ftview
demo programs and its siblings could need that for debugging purposes
(i.e., to compare rendering results of different SVG engines).


   Werner