Re: harfbuzz 2f72162: Fix crash in the Cairo build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:16:46 +0100
> 
> Aligning ftfont.c and ftcrfont.c is pretty easy. Did you want me to
> try to unify xftfont.c in there as well?

If that makes sense, i.e. if the commonality seems to justify that,
then yes.

> Iʼm tempted to get rid of ftxfont.c as well, unless someone is
> actually still using that. [1]

I think this is a decision for another time.  In any case, we cannot
just remove it, we need to deprecate it first.  We may declare it
deprecated now, and perhaps cause its inclusion to trigger some
deprecation message during building Emacs.

> [1] How many different font backends can we come up with using only 3
>      letters?

That calls for a Lisp program, no?

Thanks.