Re: Haiku port

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 21:19:16 +0800
> 
> > Is haikufont so different from the other font infrastructures that you
> > couldn't do it?  Supporting HarfBuzz usually needs just a small number
> > of functions, as the basics are already in hbfont.c.
> >
> > Or maybe you have specific questions about this, in which case please
> > ask them.
> 
> BFont seems to be too basic.  Someone has given me details on using
> FreeType and HarfBuzz in Haiku applications and I plan to look at that.

Thanks.  Feel free to ask questions about that.

> > Hmm... maybe.  But then I guess I'm confused: what does the automatic
> > detection of Haiku do, if one needs --with-be-app to have the
> > windowing code?  IOW, why don't you assume --with-be-app if the
> > automatic detection of Haiku succeeds?
> 
> I think it owes to the fact that the Haiku windowing backend is not
> entirely complete.  Namely, the font driver needs work, and there are
> some things I haven't quite worked out, such as child frames.

So if one doesn't use --with-be-app, they get an Emacs that can only
support text-mode terminals, is that right?