Re: Missing items to make Cairo ready

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

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.

> 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...

> However, I think
> the time to discuss this is not right now, but at least
> when we have taken a decision on if/when we want to
> support SVG images via librsvg.

Ok.

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