skia-python v134.b12 is out

[Hin-Tak Leung]

 It was out about a month ago... 

Leading up to it earlier, was 4 possible font-related additions that I wrote; plus a 5th from Khaled Hosny on color font palettes. Only 2 of the 5 made it into the release.

I think it is fair to say we are making steady progress, but very cautious about adding new code, and drifting and introducing more regressions again the last stable release, v87, which is 4 years old now. (skia versions are about a month to 6 weeks apart, so you can do the maths, 134 - 87 = 47 = 4 x 12 -1 )
 
v87 had a very exhaustive test suite so this is the main task before the next stable release can happen. If anybody is interested in either actually fixing some of the problems, or sponsoring others to do so:

[1] https://github.com/kyamagu/skia-python/issues/304 : Next stable release's criteria/wishlist

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Anyway, the main thing about skia-python is the "not glamourous" tasks of cutting down the regressions - i.e. https://github.com/kyamagu/skia-python/issues/304 , so this is a pledge specifically on that, either on man-power, or actual funding. Or, well, it probably will stay in beta 20+ to v15x's, at the moment, for another 18 months.

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- various font/font-manager related enhancements from upstream: initial SkParagraph support landed a month or two ago; currently upcoming are SkFontMgr_New_Custom_Directory ,SkOrderedFontMgr and SkFontScanner, and textlayout::TypefaceFontProvider,
which are ways of loading fonts from a whole directory, an ordered font priority list, and creating font instances from variable/colored fonts with custom palettes, and registering typefaces for paragraph layout.

  
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