<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As part of the overarching GIMP upgrade effort, we’re juggling updates to a number of foundational ports. One of those is ‘harfbuzz’, which is still pending via PR 11948 (<a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/11948" class="">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/11948</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Not surprisingly, some of the pending updates require updated dependencies of their own. And so it goes with pango, which requires an updated harfbuzz.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To proactively test updates to this pair, it’s been necessary to create a new Devel port, harfbuzz-devel (and companion harfbuzz-icu-devel), to correspond with pango-devel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Both pango-devel, as well as harfbuzz-devel/harfbuzz-icu-devel, have finally been updated to their latest upstream releases. So that’s a key hurdle out of the way.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now there’s just one logistical snag: We need to update dependents of ‘harfbuzz’ and ‘harfbuzz-icu', to utilize a path-style dependency. Once that’s done, we won’t have issues with the non-Devel version being inadvertently pulled in, when the Devel versions are installed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So the $100,000 question is: For all of the dependent ports - there are 33 for ‘harfbuzz’, and 11 for ‘harfbuzz-icu’ - do folks mind if I (carefully) update each, switching to a path-style dependency for these? That can certainly be done via a PR - or perhaps several - but that seems overkill. Though I’m willing to do it, if folks feel strongly enough. (You might hear some grumbling though. LOL. Just kidding...)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thoughts?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">-Chris</div></body></html>