Quick update on project status

[Roman Kennke]

Hi Igor,

> At the moment proposed fix for replacing encumbered T2K library with 
> freetype is under code review.
> Upon approval (it is over 3500 lines and review will likely take some 
> time and several iterations)
> changes will start making their way to master workspace and going public.
> Depending on integration windows schedule this will take few weeks to 
> land on openjdk.java.net.

Great! So this is will be a complete replacement for the encumbered T2K
library?

> Changes introduce abstraction of scaler engine (sun.font.FontScaler) and 
> implementations for Freetype and T2K.
> They were tested with freetype 2.3.4 but likely should work with all 
> 2.3.* versions.

'Abstraction of scaler engine', does that mean that it would be possible
to provide alternative implementations? I would be very interested in
that (I told you in Brussels).

> But hopefully this project can evolve faster as we can work on it 
> together in the public workspace.

I'm looking forward to that.

> Let me know if you are interested to help with improving freetype based 
> implementation.
> Perhaps we can find way to get you involved even before changes become 
> available to general public.

I would be interested in having a look, and Francis from Redhat too
AFAIK.

/Roman

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