Re: Missing items to make Cairo ready

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 06/01/2023 à 14:26, Jonas Hahnfeld a écrit :
> On Fri, 2023-01-06 at 14:21 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > Le 06/01/2023 à 10:19, Jonas Hahnfeld a écrit :
> > > Regardless of what has been done in prior versions, it seems to me the
> > > cleanest solution still is to remove a number of markup commands that
> > > we cannot or do not want to support with Cairo.
> > I don't see any markup commands other than \postscript
> > and \epsfile that we cannot fully support in Cairo.
> Any number bigger than zero represents a "breaking change" for me, and
> it's not the sort of change that can be fixed by convert-ly or even
> manually because there is no (general) equivalent.



Oh, I was not trying to comment on whether we should bump the major
version (I have no opinion on that), just on which deprecations
actually have to be made.



> > The situation for these is that they are only partially
> > supported, they only work for PS/EPS output. I see no
> > point in removing them entirely, we can just deprecate
> > calling them for non-PS/EPS output.
> I don't understand the desire to keep something half-working...



No strong opinion here, but it gives an escape hatch to obtain PDFs
with embedded EPSes, by generating PS output and converting
to PDF yourself, which may ease the transition for some people.

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