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Re: Haiku port
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Haiku port |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:50:25 +0300 |
> 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?
- Haiku port, Po Lu, 2021/08/26
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