Re: Cairo branch.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Jan D." <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:17:34 +0100
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> > Another interesting issue is whether we want to use Cairo on Windows
> > as well, and eventually drop the w32-specific display back-end.
> 
> You have to separate the event and system interaction from the rendering in 
> w32, but also in the X backend so to have a pure resuable cairo rendering 
> code base.  Right now its all kind of mixed in.

Not sure I'm following: could you elaborate about them being mixed?  I
seem to remember that they are separate, at least in w32.  In
particular, event input is in a separate thread, while drawing happens
in the main thread, I think.