Replace font-kit
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- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 1.4k
- Forks
- 98
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
font-kit and pathfinder crates are de facto unmaintained, and soon this will also be official, so it would be nice to migrate off them: https://servo.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/500774-tsc/topic/How.20to.20announce.20that.20we.20are.20going.20to.20stop.20working.20on.20crates.3F
All crates come from:
https://github.com/linebender/piet/blob/618083f8a6671c7ab8c198724487348d2ccf9a8f/piet-svg/Cargo.toml#L26
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the dependencies in piet-svg/Cargo.toml at the linked commit, then inspect how font-kit and pathfinder are used across the repository. Identify maintained replacements and the affected crates before planning the migration; done means piet no longer depends on those unmaintained crates and the project still builds and tests successfully.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100