Re: [Dev-luatex] luatex and harfbuzz 2.5.1

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 10:22 AM Khaled Hosny wrote:

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 9:05 AM luigi scarso wrote:

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even considering the API stability of harfbuzz itself

HarfBuzz has stable ABI/API and has been so even before version 1.0.0.

Regards, Khaled

1 ) "stable api" doesn't mean that that private implementation stays the same. This is (one of ) the problem in using dynamic binding 2) "stable api" is a promise by the developer(s) --- but already in texlive there are the TLpatches, e.g Build/source/libs/harfbuzz/TLpatches -- luigi