Re: cairo backend status

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 8/18/06, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Rogelio Serrano schrieb:
> > On 8/16/06, Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ok back to cairo. It looks like nobody is working on it. Im going to
> > build cairo back in a uclibc based environment and hack it up so it
> > will work on the framebuffer. Im going to chop up cairo-back into tiny
> > little pieces and write test programs for each tiny bit of
> > functionality and put it back together again. My main focus is the
> > framebuffer but i would like to use gnustep for testing.
> >
>
> OK, so you will be writing a framebuffer display server to use with the
> cairo graphics backend. Nice approach, but what is the chopping and
> putting back together bit all about? Did you write this just for the
> sound of it or is there any real plan behind this?
> The cairo backend would need some fixing just as it stands, are you
> planing to do any of this?

I have not done much work on cairo back before and i dont know the
backend very well. testing the backend piece by piece and asking on
this list is the only way for me to find out what they do.

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