Re: Intricate changes to Quartz/OSX backend

[Kristian Rietveld <kris gtk org>]

On Oct 26, 2009, at 4:23 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> Oh, and unstable won't build without intervention on Tiger, because  
> the latest Pango uses CoreText instead of ATSUI; CoreText wasn't  
> supported before Leopard.

They didn't really port the backend to CoreText.  It is still using  
the ATSUI API and they changed two function calls.  I have an easy  
patch that puts the old calls (which were removed) back and then it  
builds and works fine on Tiger.  I will try to clean this patch up and  
push it soon (and also test it on Leopard, which I was not able to do  
before).

The real challenge will be to write a proper, real, CoreText backend  
for Pango.  I might tackle that in the future.


regards,

-kris.