lcms and pisces quality [was: Re: Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9]

[Dmitri Trembovetski]

   Hi Mark,

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Dmitri,
> 
> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 17:00 -0800, Dmitri Trembovetski wrote:
>> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 14:21 -0800, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>>> The JDK7 early access binary snapshot builds are built from the
>>>> OpenJDK7 sources, plus additional files and repositories we either
>>>> cannot or haven't opened up yet (for various reasons).
>>> Do you have a list of these additional files and repositories? Is there
>>> anything for which there still isn't a free replacement available?
>>    For some of these free replacements are available in the openjdk
>>    tree, but they aren't yet of satisfactory quality (like the
>>    antialiasing rasterizer)
> 
> Do you have a list of quality improvements (or maybe test cases) that
> are needed for these components? Do you know if someone is already
> working on those improvements?

   The engineers who integrated lcms and pisces rendering library
   may pitch in (they're cc-ed), I know of a few bugs for lcms:
     http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6523398
     http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6523402

   I believe there are some performance issues as well but I couldn't
   find the bug ids.

   Also, I know that pisces has some quality issues especially
   with large coordinate handling. Performance as well but I couldn't
   find any filed bugs.

   Thanks,
     Dmitri