<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 00:16:28 Craig Bradney wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2008 00:03:34 Carl Worth wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:29 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > > > So here are my two questions for everybody: > > > > > > 1. Is there anything in current cairo master that should be fixed > > > before 1.8.2 ? > > > > Behdad has requested I drop the "internal font face" commits. I think > > that means these: > > > > commit d5a998387bcee6569d33375d592190f480f12712 > > Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> > > Add an internal font face > > > > commit f8542dc9dd4dd0685f68381f21fa72dbddd8d682 > > Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> > > [twin-font] Clean up font data by joining lines and closing paths > > > > commit 9662be8ee77e219908b64b82e828d577dcf120f0 > > Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> > > [twin-font] Adjust ascent/descent > > > > commit 6578ac148ecdd236b0860923e5dee87291c9966c > > Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> > > [twin-font] Make the stroke lighter > > > > commit 8cf399b944294645833088ee2ac1313093948b66 > > Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> > > [test] Add a test to exercise the internal twin font > > > > So I'll rebase current master to make a new 1.8 branch that elides those > > three commits, (and any others that I find are required0. > > > > > 2. Is there anything that's not yet in cairo master that should be > > > added before 1.8.2? > > > > Since I asked, Chris has pushed out a lot of locking fixes based on > > lockdep testing. It's always a bit scary to see MUTEX_LOCK/UNLOCK > > changes right before a release, but I'm more comfortable that these are > > based on problems and solutions verified with an automatic tool. And > > it's lovely to see thing like: > > > > assert (CAIRO_HOLDS_MUTEX (scaled_font->mutex)); > > > > throughout the code. This makes the code more readable, and isn't just > > decoration, but is the condition verified by lockdep. > > > > I've also read through the big batch of changes that Chris just pushed, > > and I'm willing to signoff on them. > > > > Chris has said he has one last issue to fix, but I haven't heard > > anything from anyone else. So once he says he's done, I'll go ahead and > > create 1.8.2 as described above. > > Was there ever a fix put in for the cairo bug shown in Scribus where faint > lines were drawn on the canvas? http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=6971 > Franz ended up working around this somehow but its a bit of a hack IIRC. Thanks, :), we have confirmed the fix and only include our hack for > cairo 1.5.10 && < cairo 1.8.0 now. Craig</body></html>