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[docs] Move note about harfbuzz-old to proper place 

Commit 443f872132 seems to have moved it
to the API part by mistake.
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Khaled Hosny 2020-12-27 15:03:57 +02:00 committed by Behdad Esfahbod
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@ -49,37 +49,6 @@
<ulink role="online-location" url="http://[SERVER]/libharfbuzz/index.html">http://[SERVER]/libharfbuzz/</ulink>.--> <ulink role="online-location" url="http://[SERVER]/libharfbuzz/index.html">http://[SERVER]/libharfbuzz/</ulink>.-->
</releaseinfo> </releaseinfo>
</partinfo> </partinfo>
<note>
<para>
The current HarfBuzz codebase is versioned 2.x.x and is stable
and under active maintenance. This is what is used in latest
versions of Firefox, GNOME, ChromeOS, Chrome, LibreOffice,
XeTeX, Android, and KDE, among other places.
</para>
<para>
Prior to 2012, the original HarfBuzz codebase (which, these
days, is referred to as <emphasis>harfbuzz-old</emphasis>) was
derived from code in <ulink
url="http://freetype.org/">FreeType</ulink>, <ulink
url="http://pango.org/">Pango</ulink>, and
<ulink url="http://qt-project.org/">Qt</ulink>.
It is <emphasis>not</emphasis> actively developed or
maintained, and is extremely buggy. All users of harfbuzz-old
are encouraged to switch over to the new HarfBuzz as soon as possible.
</para>
<para>
To make this distinction clearer in discussions, the current
HarfBuzz codebase is sometimes referred to as
<emphasis>harfbuzz-ng</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>
For reference purposes, the harfbuzz-old source tree is archived
<ulink
url="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz.old/">here</ulink>. There
are no release tarballs of harfbuzz-old whatsoever.
</para>
</note>
<title>Reference manual</title> <title>Reference manual</title>
<chapter> <chapter>
@ -180,4 +149,33 @@
<xi:include href="xml/annotation-glossary.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include> <xi:include href="xml/annotation-glossary.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include>
</part> </part>
<note>
<para>
The current HarfBuzz codebase is versioned 2.x.x and is stable
and under active maintenance. This is what is used in latest
versions of Firefox, GNOME, ChromeOS, Chrome, LibreOffice,
XeTeX, Android, and KDE, among other places.
</para>
<para>
Prior to 2012, the original HarfBuzz codebase (which, these days, is
referred to as <emphasis>harfbuzz-old</emphasis>) was derived from code
in <ulink url="http://freetype.org/">FreeType</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://pango.org/">Pango</ulink>, and
<ulink url="http://qt-project.org/">Qt</ulink>.
It is <emphasis>not</emphasis> actively developed or maintained, and is
extremely buggy. All users of harfbuzz-old are encouraged to switch over
to the new HarfBuzz as soon as possible.
</para>
<para>
To make this distinction clearer in discussions, the current HarfBuzz
codebase is sometimes referred to as <emphasis>harfbuzz-ng</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>
For reference purposes, the harfbuzz-old source tree is archived
<ulink url="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz.old/">here</ulink>.
There are no release tarballs of harfbuzz-old whatsoever.
</para>
</note>
</book> </book>