Re: pycairo status?
Bryce Harrington <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:58:15PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > 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? Right, it's like 2 full releases behind. > > 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? There is another python cairo binding called cairocffi, which I gather is a bit more up to date (I haven't tried it myself). It claims to be a drop-in replacement for pycairo. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cairocffi/ Anyone know anything more about it? Bryce -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo