SDL_ttf new release with HarfBuzz?

Since 2019 there is a new patch for SDL_ttf which has already landed in master. This patch has added optional HarfBuzz dependency to SDL_ttf. It is behind a compile flag though ./configure CPPFLAGS=-DTTF_USE_HARFBUZZ=1.

I wonder whether it is possible to release at least a beta version with these changes? The last release is 2.0.15 from 2019.

I appreciate any feedback on this issue.

Thanks.

Did you try ./configure -DTTF_USE_HARFBUZZ=1

Or maybe I misunderstood the patch …

The patch is perfectly fine and I am using it as you suggested. However, integrating it to other pipeline such as Arch repositories and similar often need having a release version number. That’s why I asked for a release, perhaps as a tar.gz or .zip file.

For reference, I just learned I can download the source of any specific commit using a like such as https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_ttf/archive/35ce6ce66b80.tar.gz. This solves my problem. Thanks.