[tex-live] HarfBuzz plans to go C++11

Khaled Hosny dr.khaled.hosny at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 21:08:12 CET 2018


On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 06:58:57PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 18:53, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >
> > Behdad plans to move HarfBuzz to C++11.
> >
> >   https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/1509
> >
> > Please chime in if you have concerns.
> 
> TeX Live now depends on other libraries (poppler, ICU, ...) and uses
> binaries (dvisvgm, partially asymptote, ...) which need C++11, so this
> is no longer a dealbreaker.

Also in case of HarfBuzz it means only requiring a C+11 capable
compiler, HarfBuzz still does not link to libstd++ (and this is unlikely
to change in the near future).

Regards,
Khaled


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