Re: cairo dep

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 01:45 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 23.07.2008, 01:24 +0200 schrieb Vincent Untz:
> > Good, thanks for letting us know. One issue, though, is that we
> > generally use only stable external dependencies releases -- it makes
> > things much easier in general.
> > 
> > We can probably make an exception for cairo, based on past experience
> > (which was quite good :-)). Opinions?

The new API I'm adding to cairo has to be tested by using them in Pango.
So the alternatives are:

  - Use them in a Pango branch, to merge in trunk for next release
cycle,

  - Use them in a Pango branch, then merge to current devel tree at the
last minute when cairo 1.8 is released,

Neither solve my problem which is that I want to get the Pango features
relying on cairo 1.8 API to get testing, to make me feel comfortable
putting them in cairo 1.8...

By all means consider cairo a GNOME module as far as development is
concerned.

> Cairo hasn't disappointed me in the past, so I (once again) expect them
> to keep their schedule. I'm fine with that.

Yay.

> andre
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