[HarfBuzz] Language Modularization?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
> <thep at linux.thai.net> wrote:
> 
>> And the question becomes how to extract that particular feature
>> without pulling in the whole library. I hate cut-and-paste and maintaining
>> multiple copies of the same code, BTW.
> 
> Oh, yes. I'm just reminded that the libthai word break code lazily
> loads dictionary, so that no dictionary is loaded if it's not called.
> Do you think that's sufficient to have libthai directly linked into
> Harfbuzz?

Well, all this panning doesn't really get us anywhere as long as no one is
actively developing HarfBuzz.  So, my yes or no hear doesn't mean anything.

In the vision I have for HarfBuzz though, no, it wouldn't be ok to link to
libthai.  In my view, libthai will be merged into HarfBuzz as HarfBuzz will be
the definitive Free shaping engine.  We don't need a libthai and a libarabic
and a libindic...


Regards,

behdad

> Regards,