[Fontconfig] fontconfig's wip/threadsafe branch

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Tue Jan 1 23:16:09 PST 2013


On 12-12-31 02:05 PM, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> Please go ahead. if there are any issues, we can fix that anytime right.

Ok, this is in master now.  I had to fix a few other issues, but it all looks
good to me now.  We need lots of testing though.

Cheers,
behdad

> BTW I don't have an access to test recent commits right now. so let me check
> when I'm back.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 2012/12/31 7:43 "Behdad Esfahbod" <behdad at behdad.org <mailto:behdad at behdad.org>>:
> 
>     Ping?  Should I merge it in?  It's starting to rot.
> 
>     behdad
> 
>     On 12-11-19 01:59 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>     > Hi Akira,
>     >
>     > The branch is read as far as I know.  Though I have put my pango
>     threadsafety
>     > work on hold for a bit.  But I do consider the fc branch to be ready.
>      At any
>     > rate, testing these kinds of things is a bit tricky.  I'll see if I can put
>     > something together.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > behdad
>     >
>     > On 12-11-19 05:08 AM, Akira TAGOH wrote:
>     >> Hi Behdad,
>     >>
>     >> How's things going on?
>     >> For some pending tasks on fontconfig I just decided that may be better
>     >> continuing the work after your branch is merged because some works may
>     >> be conflict or needs to be reworked in either of your or my side, I
>     >> suppose I'll work on them anytime soon. particularly after 2.10.2 is
>     >> released.
>     >>
>     >> I hope your efforts would makes fontconfig better and threadsafe, I
>     >> think it may be a good idea to add some test cases to make sure if
>     >> there are no regressions for changes will be made in the future so
>     >> that we can run "make check" for confirmation. that would also be
>     >> helpful to make sure if someone breaks the threadsafe code.
>     >>
>     >> That would be nice if you can add it too though, if you don't have a
>     >> time, let me try to find a time. anyway, please let me know current
>     >> plan on this branch.
>     >>
>     >> Thanks,
>     >> --
>     >> Akira TAGOH
>     >>
>     >
> 
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>     behdad
>     http://behdad.org/
> 

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