Re: [glob2-devel] Add more language support #16391

[Dave Vasilevsky]

On 1/4/07, Stéphane Magnenat <address@hidden> wrote:
> Having different subsystems for different plateforms does not sound very
> maintainable to me. There is a big risk some linux guy updates something that
> breaks OS X subsystem, while OS X maintainer is away. I'm afraid that in the
> long run this will just make ports more difficult.

Yeah, that's understood. If we go this path, I'd want to establish a
pretty small API for text-drawing-systems. The only operations we seem
to need are:

- Init/cleanup the font system
- Load a font
- Draw styled text as a DrawableSurface

We could then have each implementation in separate files, lessening
the chances of accidental breakage.

Before doing anything though, we should probably talk to the SDL_Pango
maintainers and find out what they think! I'm sure they have ideas for
the best way to get text working on multiple OSes.

Dave