Hi all, I'm working on a project that would benefit very much from Python Freetype2 bindings (the Fonty Python project). I don't want to duplicate efforts and wrap the library again if we don't have to. Interestingly, it seems like there have been lots of attempts at doing this.
Generally, there are: ft2 - http://www.satzbau-gmbh.de/staff/abel/ft2/index.html No longer maintained, incomplete, beta, from around the 2.0 days. Py-freetype - http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/projects/pyfreetype2.html More recent, on Pyrex, last update was in 2003, no longer maintained, doesn't compile for me Then, it seems like multiple projects (matplotlib and PIL) have done their own integration with FT, but maintain that code themselves, for themselves. These, of course, are up-to-date and maintained. Are there other projects that have also done their own work on FT bindings? Ultimately, this means that there is no FreeType2 bindings package that is up-to-date and generally available, but that the work has been done multiple times over by individual projects. I understand that this is totally the prerogative of each project. The community, though, could benefit from having a central package of bindings. Are those who have already worked on bindings willing to extract their work into a separate package? It would be great to finally have a set of standard bindings! Thoughts are welcome. I am new to the C extension world, so I am probably missing a whole other level of complexity here. Thanks, Jason p.s. There is a sad message on Freetype's website about this ("Unfortunately, no mature Python bindings for FreeType 2 are available currently..."), right above its notes about all the other languages that do have bindings (including Ruby!). :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
