Re: GSoC for 2010?

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:08 PM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
>> It should be noted that iPhone OS application are not MacOS X. While
>> they share some of the API, like Foundation, UIKit isn't AppKit.
>> Also the odd choice of using Cairo for the graphic layer is a bit of a
>> blocker as Cairo does not use CoreText but use ATSUI instead, which is
>> not available on iPhone nor, in 64-bits Cocoa (think *deprecated*).
>> Nothing that can't be done, but definitely something that requires a
>> good deal of work.
>
> As far as I know, we use Pango for text rendering now (so ATSUI or
> CoreText). Or did I miss something here?

Pango is implemented using ATSUI on Mac. That's all the issue I'm
describing. iPhone only has CoreText.

Cheers,
Received on Sun Apr 18 23:22:21 2010