Re: Announcing LibSpiro - version libspiro_beta.0.3.20150131

Awesome work!! Will users upgrading their libspiro package automatically
get these benefits or should a FontForge issue be opened laying out the
steps to benefit? :)
On Jan 31, 2015 10:57 PM, "Jose Da Silva" <[email protected]> wrote:

> LibSpiro, version 0.3.20150131.
>
> Spiro is the creation of Raph Levien, which simplifies the drawing of
> beautiful curves. LibSpiro is a shareable library that can be used by
> programs to do the Spiro computations for you.
>
> Main improvements in this release are fixes for LibSpiro package
> definitions (not completed in tagpoint 0.2.20131203) allowing other
> programs to seek LibSpiro using PKG_CHECK_MODULES().
> A more detailed verification can be found in these bugfixes:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196780
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43373
>
> Other improvements you may notice in this release (compared to
> LibSpiro 20071029) are:
>         1) LibSpiro tries harder to create curves before giving-up on the
>         really hard curves.
>         2) 2+2 enhanced functions which return "pass/fail". Backwards
>         compatibility is maintained for older programs using older method.
>         3) code optimizations so that some numbers aren't re-computed
>         inside loops and routines (summary, should run a little faster).
>         4) A few error checks, such as making sure memory is allocated,
>         otherwise fail gracefully and avoid crashes.
>         5) Checks for inifinte values are done, so that user code doesn't
>         need to test for this now (LibSpiro returns fail).
>         6) configure now has options that were only accessible in code
>         earlier, such as VERBOSE, UNITTEST.
>         7) 'make check' allows you to test this new LibSpiro before you do
>         a 'make install'
>         8) tests/call-test.c includes example code that may help developers
>         who are interested in creating programs that use LibSpiro.
>
> To download a *.tar.gz or *.zip copy, please go to:
> https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro/releases/tag/0.3.20150131
>
> Files installed for this 0v3 LibSpiro release are:
> /usr/local/lib/libspiro.0.3.*
> /usr/local/include/bezctx.h
> /usr/local/include/bezctx_intf.h
> /usr/local/include/spiroentrypoints.h
> /usr/local/include/spiro.h
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
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