From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: HarfBuzz is available on MS-Windows Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 09:49:51 +0300 Message-ID: References: <83o93iwwtn.fsf@gnu.org> <87a7ezn7uj.fsf@russet.org.uk> <837ea3vmrv.fsf@gnu.org> <875zpnn6v6.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87imtnsp0c.fsf@telefonica.net> <831s0bv186.fsf@gnu.org> <87y32jqrf7.fsf@telefonica.net> <1A7FDAC4-25D8-42B5-A576-601399C04C6B@gnu.org> <87tvd7qpl1.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="57841"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 03 08:50:04 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hXgnD-000Evg-Nu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 08:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXgnC-0006gp-8q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 02:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXgn6-0006gk-FO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 02:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXgn6-0000dP-2I; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 02:49:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.12.242.238] (port=52917 helo=[10.163.53.17]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hXgn5-0005o0-DX; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 02:49:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tvd7qpl1.fsf@telefonica.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237211 Archived-At: On June 3, 2019 7:07:22 AM GMT+03:00, "=C3=93scar Fuentes" wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > >> I looked at Debian and Arch Linux package descpriptions and it > seems > >> that glib2 is a runtime dependency for providing GObject bindings=2E > >> HarfBuzz can be compiled without glib2, but then those bindings are > >> not > >> available=2E > > > > AFAIK, GObject bindings are needed only for Pango, something that's > > unlikely to be useful on Windows=2E >=20 > Well, MSYS2 has Pango as a package=2E There are several other packages > that depend on it=2E Yes, and everybody else pays for that=2E 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=2E That's what the "one fits all" methods always boil down to: 99=2E99% of us= ers pay for the needs of 0=2E01%=2E