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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Use of Win32 API in harfbuzz
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ea22af3-0e87-b845-af3a-15c17a2e3c85@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22165fae-2b9c-c872-e920-6d0983786c9e@cornell.edu>

On 7/12/2018 12:24 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> Yaakov,
> 
> A recent commit in upstream harfbuzz (ce17340) used the Win32 API on Cygwin.  I 
> was about to send a patch upstream to fix this, but I thought I should first 
> check for such uses in the current Cygwin release (1.7.6-1).  The attached patch 
> removes the ones I found.
> 
> Am I right in removing all of these, or should some be kept?  I wasn't sure 
> about the calls to setmode(), for example.
> 
> And is it OK with you for me to send Cygwin patches upstream, or would you 
> rather be the one communicating with them?

I never got a reply, so I went ahead and sent an updated version of the patch 
upstream:

   https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/1380

Yaakov, please comment there if you have a chance to take a look.

Ken

      reply	other threads:[~2018-11-13 14:18 UTC|newest]

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2018-07-12 16:25 Ken Brown
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