[HarfBuzz] GObject Introspection Change & HarfBuzz version

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi Dominik,

Sorry for the late response.  Comments below.

On 07/23/2012 07:11 AM, Dominik Röttsches wrote:
> Hi Behdad,
> 
> I am working on incorporating HarfBuzz NG into EFL WebKit, and WebKit GTK as
> well, if I have time.

Interesting. Have you checked what bashi has been doing?  It's under
WebKit/Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/harfbuzz/ng.


> Maybe you can give me some advise on what version / commit I should be using.
> So far, I used the 0.9.0 tarball from here:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-20120627.tar.bz2
> 
> What's the release cycle of harfbuzz, and which hash is a good stable release?

Umm.  We have not had any releases so far as we've been trying to get
functionality done.  As of this week, I'm glad to say that I ran out of
essential features to implement for a 1.0 release, so my focus for the next
few weeks will be getting 1.0 out of the door.  I expect a few minor API
changes while we get there, but nothing major.

In the mean time, I just made a 0.9.2 release and uploaded here:

  http://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/


> One more particular request I would have:
> After commit 1bc1cb36
> several HarfBuzz type lost their prefix _ (underscore).
> Since WebKit copies this typedef and different ports of WebKit use different
> versions of HarfBuzz, can we have a bumped minor version for this so that I
> could distinguish before and after this particular commit by minor version?
> Would that make sense?

Is the new release good enough?  Sorry, I didn't know Webkit is addressing the
types using their struct tags.

Cheers,
behdad


> Thanks & regards,
> 
> Dominik
>