[HarfBuzz] HarfBuzz code in CVS

[Behdad Esfahbod]

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...


> > 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...


> Cheers,
> Lars

Cheers,
--behdad