[HarfBuzz] A few HarfBuzz-ng questions

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 11/19/10 02:09, Martin Hosken wrote:
> Dear Behdad,
> 
>>> 2. SHAPERS: In void hb_shape(...) in hb-shape.cc, I see this:
>>
>> The current Graphite shaper is disabled because it was crashing on me all the
>> time.  Deep in the libgraphite code...  That's a major concern.  Most probably
>> I never enable graphite or any other non-included backend by default and make
>> users --enable them if they wish.
> 
> That's the first I've heard of your having problems. We could dig into them or we could wait for the rewrite. We're aiming for a good solid beta by the end of the year.

I reported and disabled it the week after it was committed, in May:

  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2010-May/000679.html

Since it was disabled I was ignoring it.  But recently I got a report that it
doesn't build and hence people have to manually disable it at configure time.

behdad


> Yours,
> Martin