[OSM-dev] [mapnik] GSoC - Improving support for non-latin languages in mapnik

[Tom Hughes]

On 02/06/12 03:22, Dane Springmeyer wrote:

> On May 31, 2012, at 4:08 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
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>> I'm not clear how much better HarfBuzz is from a dependency point of view
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> I think harfbuzz-ng (the recent re-write) is much better. It appears to only have one hard dependency: ragel (http://www.complang.org/ragel/). All others are optional (like freetype, ICU, cairo) but of course many of these optional ones are already Mapnik dependencies.
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>> - it is still built on top of GLib so looks much the same to me from that point of view.
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> Harfbuzz-ng appears to only use glib for atomics/mutexs on linux, and instead uses osx and windows specific stuff for threading.

Ah right, I had just looked at configure to see what it was probing for. 
If it only uses GLib on Linux then that sounds promising.

Tom

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