[cairo-commit] [cairo-www] src/summerofcode
Carl Worth
cworth at freedesktop.org
Sun Mar 16 17:30:46 PDT 2008
src/summerofcode/ideas.mdwn | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
New commits:
commit bea8842fc89b777ee2fd46210004b100c8aac583
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at freedesktop.org>
Date: Sun Mar 16 17:30:46 2008 -0700
web commit by BehdadEsfahbod
diff --git a/src/summerofcode/ideas.mdwn b/src/summerofcode/ideas.mdwn
index 8ce17a0..1a3e0d0 100644
--- a/src/summerofcode/ideas.mdwn
+++ b/src/summerofcode/ideas.mdwn
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
Intro on Cairo coolness
=======================
-Cairo has a very clean code base that is a pleasure to read. We believe that
-source code should be written with being read by humans as a primary goal.
-
We also have a great community of users and developers, and use the same mailing
list for both user questions and development discussions. This has proved to
be a very effective way of helping users become developers gradually. It all
@@ -23,6 +20,14 @@ called Pixman, that does the software rendering for cairo. Most of the ideas
below do not touch on Pixman though. See [here](http://cairographics.org/download/)
for instructions on how to get cairo.
+Cairo has a very clean code base that is a pleasure to read. We believe that
+source code should be written with being read by humans as a primary goal.
+The file names are very clean and instantly give an easily understandable map
+of the code base. For example, the cairo xlib surface backend is implemented
+in src/cairo-xlib-surface.c. All the other xlib-specific code is under
+src/cairo-xlib-*.c names too.
+
+
* [Medium] Implement a faster lookup-table-based rasterizer
Cairo's software rasterization currently does a complete walk of a
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