[Development] Making FreeType and platform-independent HarfBuzz-NG available on all platforms

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Thursday 25 September 2014 15:12:01 Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we have a customer who is interested (among possibly other font
> rendering improvements) in using the same high-quality font stack on all
> platforms, for which HarfBuzz-NG / FreeType is the obvious candidate. I
> wonder if patches to do that would be accepted. It seems fairly
> uncontroversial to me, but you never know.

FWIW we in Debian have been building Qt5 against system's harfbuzz-ng since 
quite some time. A few bug appeared (in webkit iirc) but where promptly fixed 
by the relevant maintainers. So I think it's simply straightforward to do.

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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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