Re: [PATCH cairo] Drop the experimental skia backend
Adrian Johnson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.cairo |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 22/08/17 07:17, Bryce Harrington wrote: > As has been stated in the README, skia is not API stable and is not > available packaged, versioned forms, resulting in it being a continually > moving target. So the cairo skia backend has to be updated continually > as the skia API morphs, which means in practice that Cairo's skia > backend will always work only with a specific snapshot and lacking a > high degree of maintenance activity will always be badly out of date. > The last time the cairo skia backend was updated was in 2014, and had > not been updated very regularly prior to that. Could we just comment it out in configure.ac to avoid presenting it as an option to users? -- cairo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo