This deletes the GLFW apprt from the Ghostty codebase.
The GLFW apprt was the original apprt used by Ghostty (well, before
Ghostty even had the concept of an "apprt" -- it was all just a single
application then). It let me iterate on the core terminal features,
rendering, etc. without bothering about the UI. It was a good way to get
started. But it has long since outlived its usefulness.
We've had a stable GTK apprt for Linux (and Windows via WSL) and a
native macOS app via libghostty for awhile now. The GLFW apprt only
remained within the tree for a few reasons:
1. Primarily, it provided a faster feedback loop on macOS because
building the macOS app historically required us to hop out of the
zig build system and into Xcode, which is slow and cumbersome.
2. It was a convenient way to narrow whether a bug was in the
core Ghostty codebase or in the apprt itself. If a bug was in both
the glfw and macOS app then it was likely in the core.
3. It provided us a way on macOS to test OpenGL.
All of these reasons are no longer valid. Respectively:
1. Our Zig build scripts now execute the `xcodebuild` CLI directly and
can open the resulting app, stream logs, etc. This is the same
experience we have on Linux. (Xcode has always been a dependency of
building on macOS in general, so this is not cumbersome.)
2. We have a healthy group of maintainers, many of which have access
to both macOS and Linux, so we can quickly narrow down bugs
regardless of the apprt.
3. Our OpenGL renderer hasn't been compatible with macOS for some time
now, so this is no longer a useful feature.
At this point, the GLFW apprt is just a burden. It adds complexity
across the board, and some people try to run Ghostty with it in the real
world and get confused when it doesn't work (it's always been lacking in
features and buggy compared to the other apprts).
So, it's time to say goodbye. Its bittersweet because it is a big part
of Ghostty's history, but we've grown up now and it's time to move on.
Thank you, goodbye.
(NOTE: If you are a user of the GLFW apprt, then please fork the project
prior to this commit or start a new project based on it. We've warned
against using it for a very, very long time now.)
This update also fixes a memory leak that was caused by blocks not being
deallocated and just collecting every single frame, slowly accumulating
memory until OOM.
We need to use this version of z2d so that we can get reproducible PNG
exports in CI for testing, since previously the PNG export was affected
by the CPU arch / features because it depended on vector width.
Fixes#7724
Background at the end of the commit message. The fix in libxev is
described in the PR and commit we pin to here, but basically we swap
read for poll for eventfd/timerfd.
From Jens Axboe on X:
> This will fix it: https://pastebin.com/n7JSZWpW which makes me suspicious
> that it's an S_IFREG check somewhere else, as anon inodes are now listed as
> regular files. Has potentially pretty broad implications...
> I think I can already answer why that breaks things - io_uring checks if
> this is a regular file, and if it is, it doesn't do short reads. Short
> reads on regular files (or a bdev) will cause application issues, as
> basically nobody expects them.
> Now we have what acts like a char dev, but where io_uring will retry IO
> because the application asked for more data than what was delivered. This
> will cause the weird slowdowns as data isn't delivered as soon as it's
> available.
This updates our bundled Harfbuzz from 8.4 to 11.0. The changes from 8
to 11 include a number of correctness and performance improvements.
Packaged releases tend to dynamically link so this won't affect
existing users, but build-from-source users hopefully get an
improvement.
We have always tracked a post-3.4 release, this brings us up to date.
There's no real motivation beyond this other than keeping up to date
since we're already on non-release versions anyways.
Upstream is now mostly pure Zig and the build.zig.zon.* files are
generated directly by zon2nix. The JSON file is no longer used as an
intermediate file but is retained for downstream packager usage.
