Re: pycairo status?
Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.cairo |
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On 14-08-14 01:29 PM, Dave Curtis wrote: > On 08/14/2014 09:26 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >> On 14-08-14 12:39 AM, Dave Curtis wrote: >>> Are they being actively maintained? >> >> No. :( > > It isn't clear to me exactly how far behind pycairo and py2cairo have fallen? I know, for example, that the mesh gradients are not in there. I'm guessing that neither are cairo_device_t, recording-surface, and probably some egl stuff? > Also, do the Python bindings need to be rev'ed for each release of cairo, or > can libcairo move forward without disturbing the pycairo bindings? No, the API that is there keeps working. It's just newer API that is missing. > And is > there some difficult technical problem that causes the python2 bindings and > the python3 bindings to be in separate modules instead of a single > version-aware module? I *think* CPython API has changed enough that one binary wouldn't do, but one source should be possible? > -dave > -- behdad http://behdad.org/ -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo