From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Subject: Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 09:49:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BC411616-92AA-4D24-8019-D26CD3455434@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvd7qpl1.fsf@telefonica.net>
On June 3, 2019 7:07:22 AM GMT+03:00, "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> I looked at Debian and Arch Linux package descpriptions and it
> seems
> >> that glib2 is a runtime dependency for providing GObject bindings.
> >> HarfBuzz can be compiled without glib2, but then those bindings are
> >> not
> >> available.
> >
> > AFAIK, GObject bindings are needed only for Pango, something that's
> > unlikely to be useful on Windows.
>
> Well, MSYS2 has Pango as a package. There are several other packages
> that depend on it.
Yes, and everybody else pays for that. It might be educational to find out which of those other packages actually need complex script shaping with HarfBuzz, and cannot be satisfied by Uniscribe; I'm guessing zero.
That's what the "one fits all" methods always boil down to: 99.99% of users pay for the needs of 0.01%.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-03 6:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-31 13:57 HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-31 14:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-05-31 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-31 16:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-05-31 17:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-05-31 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-31 19:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-05-31 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-31 20:53 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-05-31 22:10 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-01 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-02 18:46 ` Phillip Lord
2019-06-02 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-02 19:07 ` Phillip Lord
2019-06-02 20:36 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-03 2:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-03 3:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-03 3:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-03 4:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-03 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-06-04 4:51 ` Tak Kunihiro
2019-06-04 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-07 17:05 ` Andy Moreton
2019-06-07 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-07 21:13 ` Andy Moreton
2019-06-08 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-08 12:11 ` Andy Moreton
2019-06-08 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2019-05-31 20:24 Angelo Graziosi
2019-06-01 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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