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This avoids a level of indirection, and also means that a FT2Font is a PyFT2Font (since there are no other subclasses), which helps with some future work. The only downside is that the constructor/destructor order is fixed and slightly different, so we need to split the open/close stages for the FT_Face and explicitly call them in PyFT2Font.

There are currently still two copies of the fallback list, one on each level. The one on FT2Font is what's actually used, but the one on PyFT2Font is the actual owner (because pybind11 owns the objects, so we need a Python object to own them). I think it may be possible to drop that extra copy by switching to std::shared_ptr, but that will likely require the smart holders that are new in pybind11 v3, and I haven't fully tested that out yet.

This PR is based on/waiting for #30322.

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QuLogic added 3 commits July 17, 2025 01:36
This factor existed only to preserve test images, but as of matplotlib#29816, it
is set to 0 (i.e., disabled and providing default behaviour). In the
future, with libraqm, it will have no effect no matter its setting
(because we won't be applying kerning ourselves at all.)
This makes it easier to do later refactors.
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QuLogic commented Jul 18, 2025

The goal here is to avoid having to this whole set_parent thing: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/30000/files#diff-c8ef50e596f5bb461a98e5c60d0061276d773c260b206290ee71c63817242c08R174-R183 for which we have to map FT_Face -> FT2Font -> PyFT2Font but with this PR, the latter two are the same.

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