From: nwmcsween@gmail.com
To: "musl@lists.openwall.com" <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Summary of 1.0 marketing plan/scheme/nefarious plot from IRC.
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:16:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D2699BE7-78BF-48FD-A2BC-213BB992B676@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121130190526.GA20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
I would try enlightenment, it's a stack that is reasonably portable and utilized within a few embedded projects which IMO is a good fit with musl. A few things need to be fixed within the codebase though specifically the feature macros from what I glanced at.
On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:29:31PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
>> On 11/30/12 2:27 AM, Rich Felker wrote:
>>> I'd go with xfce or lxde. Last I checked fvwm still didn't even have
>>> modern text support (using legacy X font system). BTW, supposedly the
>>> new HarfBuzz and other text rendering stack stuff has taken a turn in
>>> the direction we like. I saw an article on the redesign that claimed
>>> 98-99% drop in bloat for working with fonts. I mention this mainly
>>> because, as much as a lot of us are unhappy with FDO and related
>>> projects, it would be nice to support and praise when that stuff does
>>> move in the right direction.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-30 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-29 20:50 Rob Landley
2012-11-29 21:15 ` Justin Cormack
2012-11-29 21:51 ` Luca Barbato
2012-11-30 1:30 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-01 0:04 ` Rob Landley
2012-11-30 9:21 ` Rob Landley
2012-11-30 11:08 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-12-01 2:00 ` Rob Landley
2012-11-30 1:27 ` Rich Felker
2012-11-30 8:11 ` Truls Becken
2012-11-30 14:29 ` Luca Barbato
2012-11-30 19:05 ` Rich Felker
2012-11-30 20:16 ` nwmcsween [this message]
2012-11-30 20:20 ` Rich Felker
2012-11-30 20:32 ` nwmcsween
2012-11-30 20:25 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-11-30 20:26 ` Rich Felker
2012-11-30 21:14 ` Luca Barbato
2012-11-30 21:26 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-01 0:04 ` Rob Landley
2012-11-30 4:38 ` Jens Staal
2012-11-30 7:08 ` Daniel Bainton
2012-11-30 13:26 ` Hiltjo Posthuma
2012-11-30 2:21 idunham
2012-12-01 2:04 ` Rob Landley
2012-12-01 4:06 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-01 8:18 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-12-04 20:48 ` Rob Landley
2012-12-04 21:45 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-04 23:01 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-12-04 23:22 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-05 0:58 ` Rob Landley
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