Re: Package building

[Sergii Stoian]

Hi,

On Nov 23, 2019, at 16:25, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
> Hi Sergii,
> 
> 
> On 11/19/19 12:39 AM, Sergii Stoian wrote:
>> Some patches already went upstream, some others not yet. It’s planned 
>> anyway. I use ART backend and it stopped working after 0.25.0 release. I 
>> need to fix ART first before I can return to master branch...
> 
> 
> it is a lttle off-topic, but the ART backend still works for me. I now use it 
> only on two setups, dropping either to xlib or going standard cairo where it 
> does work. Although on one little system ART is the only one which actually 
> draws fonts :-P
> 
Hmm… Interesting...

> I havent tried in the last weeks/months, but the last release worked. Of 
> course, it has all specific "issues" of art which where never solved. But it 
> is faster for certain operations and curves and anti-aliasing are exquisite. 
> Using Graphos on art is a delight.
> 
What do you mean by “worked”? I observed incomplete words in menus and popup 
buttons. Incorrect alignment of items in popup buttons - I suppose it’s due to 
incorrect lengthOfString results. Also I suppose I’ve found cause of a problem 
- NSStringDrawing caching methods rewrite by Fred. But I can’t understand what 
changes must be applied to ART backend to adopt new caching algorithm.
> 
> Riccardo

Sergii