Re: pango+harfbuzz

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us>]

On Aug 19, 2012, at 1:19 PM, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 18, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
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>> On 08/18/2012 03:42 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Aug 18, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> removed pangoatsui. 
>>> 
>>> Which nukes OS-X 10.4 support. Is that intentional?
>> 
>> Yes.  10.4 was released in 2005, and given how up-to-date OS X installations
>> seem to be, I'm fine with nuking that.
>> 
>> Plus, CoreText has unofficially been available in 10.4, so it's probably going
>> to work with binaries made on 10.5+.
> 
> Doesn't work that way, unfortunately. If you link in any libraries without going through the framework mechanism, a program won't run on an OSX version earlier than the SDK you use to build it.
> 
> Fortunately, CoreText.framework *is* in the 10.4u SDK, so it might work. After I get the moduleset ironed out I'll test it. 

No joy. Harfbuzz won't build on Tiger, so it doesn't even get to Pango.

Regards,
John Ralls