Accepting contributions for Rust-based font indexing?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 11:27 AM Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:

>
> >> I am curious to hear your thoughts on accepting contributions to
> >> FontConfig that provide an alternative indexing code path and build
> >> configuration that does not require FreeType, but instead uses the
> >> Rust-based Fontations libraries [1] developed by Google Fonts.
> >
> > I believe this is an important and noble project to consider
> > upstream.
>
> I agree.  Using two different font backends could help improve
> FontConfig by finding subtle bugs.  It might even help FreeType – and
> Fontations – fixing bugs, too.
>
> However, to allow such kind of testing I strongly suggest that
> Fontation and FreeType can coexist in FontConfig, similar to HarfBuzz
> that also allows multiple backends AFAIK.
>

That would be ideal, yes. I'm also personally interested in writing a
HarfBuzz backend as well, for performance comparison purposes mostly, and
filling HB API gaps.

behdad

>
>     Werner
>
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