Re: ideas for returning memory to the OS

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Actually, I don't care much about it.
> BTW: there's cygwin, mingw, etc.

Already addressed.

>> It can, yes.  But no shipping distros have a new enough cairo version 
>> yet, last I checked.  
> 
> Ah ? Which version do you require ?

At the moment, pretty much "tip as of today".

>> Neither does Windows, nor OS X. 
> 
> Can't self-compiling people just be expected update ? 

We're talking about the users of the software, who are certainly not 
"self-compiling".

>> If cairo were a mature library such that everyone could be expected to 
>> have a reasonable baseline version of it installed (at least on the 
>> Linux side), we could try not shipping it (on Linux).
> 
> IMHO, cairo is quite stable. At least I didn't have any major trouble
> yet (besides the stupid feature-deps ;-o).

You're not using it very much, I guess?  Or not caring about 
performance, memory footprint, correctness, or memory leaks?

-Boris