On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> In short, the plan could be the following:
>
> - ASAP: 0.89-rc1 (from the current CVS)
> - ASAP+few days: 0.89 proper (everything's perfect, isn't it ?)
> - for 0.90: string handling audit ; xml-i18n-tools ; actual removal
> of renderobjects and libsybase.so ; if we're bold, flipping the
> UNICODE_WORK_IN_PROGRESS switch.
> - after 0.90: removing the UNICODE_WIP symbol (making its code the
> default) [*]
>
> (of course, I haven't talked about the GUI area or Bonobo stuff, which
> while important, isn't much into my area of knowledge)
>
> Lower priority but important too: kill lazyprops (no fun job, but I feel
> it's my mess -- I welcome help, of course !), bring objects into
> modernity (and in the mean time, have at least a Connection and an
> Element polished and tagged as "reference objects" for new object
> writers).
>
> [*] that doesn't mean UNICODE mandatory. This is a separate issue.
>
> What do you think of this ?
I would add one thing, most likely to 0.90, namely optional use of the
freetype library. While there are other areas where I have "wouldn't it be
neat" ideas, fonts is a "this currently sucks" area. Though it is very
quiet about it, FreeType does seem to handle UniCode fonts.
-Lars
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