Re: Go for Cairo?

[C. Ecker]

Go for Cairo?

This is a quite fundamental question. From my point of view there are pros
and cons:

Contra:
. Cairo is in an early stage
. an additional dependence
. risk that Cairo will not be developed as anounced, i.e. stopped
. additional packaging effort
. PDF export is not implemented yet and PS only rasterized

Pro:
. solves a lot of skencil problems at once: transparency, PS and PDF
  export
. probably it becomes part of gtk (really ?)

>From looking at the demos I have a quite positive impression. In the worst
case that cairo develpment would be suddenly stopped we can only use it
for pixmap rendering and it would be just a replacement for libart. In the
best case we would get transparency with ps and pdf export for free. So
there is a lot to win and the risk (and also the effort) is not too high
therefore my vote is a clear 'yes'.

Christof

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> As the libart that Skencil 0.7 uses has numerical bugs
> for a long while and does not look like it is maintained anymore,
> Skencil is on the latent need of a new graphic render library.
>
> The best candidate I know is Cairo.
> http://cairographics.org/
>
> Anybody got experiences with Cairo?
> What would be need to do to take it up in Skencil?
>
>       Bernhard R.
>
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