From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/2381 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Summary of 1.0 marketing plan/scheme/nefarious plot from IRC. Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:26:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20121130202659.GC20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <1354222203.2190.17@driftwood> <20121130012701.GY20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <50B8C2CB.30303@gentoo.org> <20121130190526.GA20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20121130202546.GA32305@port70.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354307231 25351 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2012 20:27:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:27:11 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-2382-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Nov 30 21:27:23 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TeXBD-0004FM-DT for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:27:23 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 7329 invoked by uid 550); 30 Nov 2012 20:27:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 7321 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2012 20:27:11 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121130202546.GA32305@port70.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:2381 Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:25:46PM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > * Rich Felker [2012-11-30 14:05:26 -0500]: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:29:31PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > HarfBuzz isn't that strange not-quite-C++-yet-C++ franken-library? > > > > Bleh, it looks like it was converted to C++ at some point. This is a > > major disappointment. Add "opentype interpreter" to the list of core > > system components that need to be replaced... Fortunately, I think > > this is something that can be done in at most a couple thousand lines > > of C. > > > > .. WTF. On looking at it again, it seems to be C source with .cc > > extension on all the source files. No idea what they were thinking. > > I'd be interested in hearing the story on this. > > > > it seems it has extern c interface > > but internally it uses methods and some templates > > (i didnt see constructors, destructors, exceptions > nor any libstdc++ dependency so it's mostly c with > minor c++ syntax sugar) I suppose it could be forked and that mess patched out... Rich