[HarfBuzz] Unified Shaper

[Lars Knoll]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 18:43, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 17:42, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 18:20 -0400, Andreas Vox wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > we wanted to continue our discussion on this list IIRC, so I'll just
> > > make a start.
> >
> > Yeah, I've been thinking about it too.  I really like to see this shaper
> > soon, since it's really hard to unify the OpenType script shapers in
> > Pango without pushing them down in HB.
>
> /me, too. For me the main problem is bug 8597 right now :)

That seems to be solved.

Before we start doing real work, I'd have two requests: 

* Could we make a stable branch of harfbuzz, so that both Qt and pango have a 
branch to use in the meantime (and where we can commit critical bugfixes to).

* How about moving away from CVS over to some decent system. I don't really 
care whether we use subversion or git. git however seems to be what most 
projects on freedesktop move to, so I'd propose that.

The reason to do the move now is that we currently do not have a commit 
history to loose. So we can simply import the current state into git. Later 
on the move gets more complicated, as one would like to keep the history in 
that case.

If no one is against this, I could do the move and the branching tonight or 
tomorrow.

Cheers,
Lars