Re: Pycairo recording surface
Sam Tygier <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.cairo |
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>Le 23/07/2013 11:38, Sam Tygier a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I asked in 2011 about support for the recording surface in pycairo (so >> that I don't have to duplicate my drawing code in order to find the >> extents), and was told that it should be available soon ( >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.cairo/21664 ). It looks like the >> feature it was committed >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pycairo/commit/?id=4bdcaf76248fc18253e4130fd1304b6f3b0ac3ab >> but there has not been a release since then. Is there any plan for a >> pycairo release, or has it been abandoned? > >Hi Sam, > >I sent patches for pycairo a few months back and haven’t gotten any >response. In the meantime, I made cairocffi which is an API-compatible >replacement for pycairo. It runs on Python 2.6+ and 3.x, installs with >pip/setuptools, and supports recording surfaces. > >http://pythonhosted.org/cairocffi/ >http://pythonhosted.org/cairocffi/overview.html#compatibility-with-pycairo >http://pythonhosted.org/cairocffi/api.html#recordingsurface > >Using CFFI instead of a custom C extension makes it much easier to >maintain. If you need anything that’s in cairo but missing in cairocffi >just open a Github issue, it should be easy to add. > >Cheers, >-- >Simon Sapin Should we be lobbying to get distros to replace pycairo with cairocffi? I found a fedora request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986715 Should the cairo website be recommending cairocffi Thanks, Sam -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo