Re: GSoC for 2010?

On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 14:21 -0700, Obin Hickory wrote:
> 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.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I suppose we need to poke the pango
maintainers then to port it to CoreText :)

  Marc
Received on Sun Apr 18 23:47:11 2010