> As a kde user, the qt dependency is a non-issue for me :p but... the
> build is reliant on qt4.8, which is still pre-release, so even i
> have to rebuild my whole qt libs to a non-stable state just for
> ttfautohint.  Fun but overkill.

Sorry for that.  According to this

  http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/12/15/qt-4-8-0-released/

Qt has been released more than a month ago.

> Using the qt library for ttfautohint is understandable, but i
> suggest it needs to be aimed to build out of the box on the main
> linux distros, at the very least.

I'll try to avoid a 4.8.0 dependency.

> Out of interest, do we know what the situation would be for someone
> porting ttfautohint to a cocoa etc build for osx?

Qt binary packages seem to be available for Cocoa:

  http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/qt-for-open-source-cpp-development-on-mac-os-x/

> I know many would want that.

It seems I have to delve into the cross compilation business.  Another
completely new frontier for me...


    Werner

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