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sciurius / perl-HarfBuzz-Shaper

Perl extension to use HarfBuzz for text shaping
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Seamless depending on harfbuzz: Alien::harfbuzz #2

Open sciurius opened 4 years ago

sciurius commented 4 years ago

For best results and maximal portability HarfBuzz::Shaper should have a well-defined way to establish whether it can use an existing harfbuzz library, or needs to build its own version. The correct mechanism for that is Alien.

What we need is Alien::harfbuzz.

PhilterPaper commented 4 years ago

I asked Graham Ollis (master of Alien) if there was any public place to ask for volunteers to create an Alien::HarfBuzz. Basically, a wishlist place to post for people looking for something to do. His response was essentially, "It's so easy to create an Alien package. Just do it yourself!" He's willing to help out a bit if you get stuck, but you have to be willing to do most of the work.

I fully agree that Alien::HarfBuzz would be the ideal solution, but have no experience with writing Alien packages myself, so I'm afraid that I can't be of much help here. This thread is probably the only place that you'll be able to dredge up some help. Maybe put a request in the README file?