From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: harfbuzz 2f72162: Fix crash in the Cairo build Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:52:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20181214085417.15440.18845@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <831s6kgrtj.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnu4f45d.fsf@gnu.org> <837eg8dpd6.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhr6pqmr.fsf@gnu.org> <83womapgll.fsf@gnu.org> <83lg2qp8eq.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0o2otod.fsf@gnu.org> <0oy36o22he.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83o97kn4cv.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0nzmzmr.fsf@gnu.org> <835ztrmqct.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="38243"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 10 19:53:25 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 1gsuEH-0009sp-Gl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:53:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34333 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsuEG-0008CT-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:53:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58521) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsuDj-0008CD-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:52:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsuDi-0008J7-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:52:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35248 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsuDc-0008FT-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:52:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gsuDV-0008z1-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:52:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:wBP/d78tTGzxCNTawkyy/ikG7vs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:233199 Archived-At: > Experience shows that the complaints come in too late, and the hope > that we can easily revert such a change is frequently thwarted. AFAIK it's been "impossible" to compile Emacs with ftx backend but without the xft library since 2009. So, maybe I should rather argue that it's high time we scrap the code altogether since it's been useless and unused for 10 years now. Stefan