On 1/7/21 10:41 PM, Langer, Christoph wrote: > Hi, > > is there any other reason why harfbuzz 2.7.2 needs to be backported to > OpenJDK 11 beyond the fact that Oracle did it? > > I think both, having to uplift compiler requirements and/or requiring > additional system dependencies, would be a price too high to pay for this. > And modifying the code to work without c++11 features doesn't seem feasible.
It does seem like a lot of work. maybe the issue is that HarfBuzz is no longer supported, and wouldn't get critical updates. -- Andrew Haley (he/him) Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> https://keybase.io/andrewhaley EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
