Re: Cairo-1.2.6 required

["Kalle Vahlman" <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

2007/1/23, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>:
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:56 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > On 1/23/07, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> > > I brought it up on IRC with the release team a couple devel releases
> > > ago.  With J5 in fact.  We were supposed to switch over to the cairo
> > > snapshot due that day, but that snapshot was delayed, and seems like the
> > > move got completely forgotten.
> > >
> > > I here propose that GNOME 2.18 depend on cairo 1.4.  To facilitate
> > > testing, the beta release due tomorrow should require the latest cairo
> > > 1.3 snapshot.
> > >
> > > Cairo 1.4 is currently scheduled for the end of January.  Possibly
> > > slipping over, but I think we can commit to releasing it before Feb 12
> > > which is the deadline for next GNOME beta release.  Carl?  Note that no
> > > major work is expected between the current snapshots and 1.4.  Only a
> > > few bugs to fix.  Does that sound good enough, Elijah?
> >
> > Sounds good to me, but there is (at least) one issue.  Do
> > pycairo-1.2.6 and cairomm-1.2.4 work with cairo-1.3.x?  I don't see
> > any pycairo-1.3.x or cairomm-1.3.x at either
> > http://cairographics.org/releases/ or
> > http://cairographics.org/snapshots/, so I'm worried about breaking
> > gtkmm and pygtk.  cairo-java and the perl equivalent may have similar
> > issues...  Does anyone have any more details on this?
>
> I don't think there's any problem for cairomm. The cairo API is stable.

I've been using cairomm and gtkmm with cairo 1.3.x without problems,
though I have to admit that my usage of the API is not very wide.

But I haven't encountered any problems either[1], just speed speed speed ;)

I'd say that getting cairo 1.4 would be critical for GNOME 2.18,
otherwise we will have yet another six months of less-than optimal
performance (and we all know how well the audience takes such
things...)

[1] I use 1.3-series on my desktop, nothing I see has been broken AFAICT

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