Re: Dodgy Python Example
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.cairo |
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| Organization | Geek Central |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:22:48 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > I'd suggest just dropping the example if it's too far gone, but it's > hardly the only bitrotted example on the website. It’s not actually bitrotted, it just never handled memory leaks properly. I have posted a separate patch to make it more watertight. Which means it becomes more complicated. > I'd suggest focusing energies on producing better updated docs and > examples for your python cairo framework and leave the pycairo stuff > to bitrot in peace. You're doing a good job establishing a > replacement, so just keep going with that and then perhaps replacing > all the pycairo stuff is going to end up being the de facto best way > forward on this. Thank you for those kind words. :) Shall I add another snippet to that same page, showing how much easier it is to do it with Qahirah, and even show the option to match a simple font spec using Fontconfig instead of having to specify a full font pathname? -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo