Re: Unifying code for drawing on a cairo context

[Po Lu]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> There will be no benefit to this at all.  We only recently introduced
> a second platform where Cairo drawing is used, and aside from GTK (and
> X Windows, where using Cairo for stuff other than fonts was apparently
> implemented so that we could use it for printing in the future, but
> nobody has shown any interest in doing that work), there are no other
> platfoms where Cairo drawing is required or would be beneficial.

Not to mention that Cairo is in effect unmaintained, and using it is
discouraged in new software, so I wouldn't count on it being present
forever, much less design code around the assumption that we will always
keep using Cairo.