[ft-devel] Configuring for alternative build environments

2012-11-27 Thread Del Merritt
Hello - I'm building a Java Native Interface (JNI) into freetype. I've read freetype-2.4.10's CUSTOMIZE and I'm poking around in ftsystem.c. What I would like is a way to build an FT_Stream that allows me to pass in my own stream handler(s), independent of the C RTL. These stream handlers

Re: [ft-devel] Unit test environment for FreeType

2012-11-27 Thread Sean McBride
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:43:35 -0800, Brian Stell said: Freetype is a critical part of the Linux world. It's become fairly common for bodies of code to have a test suite. (I'm not proposing full testing right right now ;-) I think the most critical issue is which testing environment would be best

Re: [ft-devel] Unit test environment for FreeType

2012-11-27 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Sean McBride s...@rogue-research.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:43:35 -0800, Brian Stell said: Freetype is a critical part of the Linux world. It's become fairly common for bodies of code to have a test suite. (I'm not proposing full testing right right now

Re: [ft-devel] Unit test environment for FreeType

2012-11-27 Thread Sean McBride
On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:44:14 -0500, Alexei Podtelezhnikov said: Glyph rendering quality is in the eye of the beholder. What somebody says is blurry is smooth in the eyes of the other. How do you suggest that we automate that? Yes, that's tricky. But that could be delayed until later. Since

Re: [ft-devel] Unit test environment for FreeType

2012-11-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I think the most critical issue is which testing environment would be best for FT. CUnit, CppUnit, googletest, ... Since FreeType is written in C I suggest a test suite in C also. This would exclude CppUnit and googletest. In case you have experience with such tools, I would ask you to

Re: [ft-devel] Unit test environment for FreeType

2012-11-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27 November 2012 21:07, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: Many of them are not freely available but are essential for testing. Any idea how to handle this? Like http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/ttf-mscorefonts-installer ___ Freetype-devel

Re: [ft-devel] Unit test environment for FreeType

2012-11-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Many of them are not freely available but are essential for testing. Any idea how to handle this? Like http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/ttf-mscorefonts-installer Yes, this helps. However, a lot of fonts are not available this way. I've received them privately via e-mail, and I must not