[HarfBuzz] HarfBuzz code in CVS

Lars Knoll lars at trolltech.com
Sun Apr 2 00:19:34 PST 2006


On Saturday 01 April 2006 04:24, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > On Friday 31 March 2006 15:15, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > I spent last night restructuring and namespacing the OpenType
> > > Layout code in Pango, and the result is in HarfBuzz CVS in the
> > > new module 'harfbuzz'.
> >
> > Great. Thanks for doing that work. I'll update our codebase in Qt and
> > test it next week (it's almost weekend here now :)
>
> No problem.  It was something I wanted to do for quite a while.
> I like how the final codebase came out, and it was a night worth
> of work only...

Great :) Can't wait to look at it.

> > > Lars, can you test?  For your convenience, you can simply compile
> > > harfbuzz.c that includes all the source files.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on whether you are willing to link to libharfbuzz
> > > instead of copying the code statically?  Owen?  Lars?
> >
> > I can consider linking to it if available on the system, but it's not a
> > priority for me. We'll need to link it statically in any way in case the
> > lib's not available on the system.
>
> Now that I think about it, I really prefer not to have to keep
> binary compatibility as the code will be evolving for a while at
> least.  We can always switch to linking later...

You're right. That'll make it easier for us to change things to achieve e.g. 
performance improvements.

Lars



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