[cairo] Java-GNOME adding cairo bindings

[mental at rydia.net]

Quoting Jeff Morgan <kuzman at gmail.com>:

> 1. The method that CairoJava uses to store pointers ... could have
> problems on certain platforms.

> 2. There is a dependency on the swt libraries.

> 3. We package all of our projects using the gnu build tools such
> as automake and libtool.

All of these sound like issues that are important for an official
Cairo binding in general, rather than being specific to Java-GNOME
(though the last one is more a matter of taste IMO).

> If there is a desire to create a common bindings package I would
> be interested in discussing what is required.   At a minimum we
> would need to address the three items described above.

I can't speak for the maintainers myself.  You will likely have to
forge some sort of compromise on the build system; possibly
parallel Eclipse and autofoo build setups.  Ideally the end result
would be equally usable with SWT and with Java-GNOME too, probably
with the SWT-specific stuff becoming a separate library just as
gtkcairo is.

-mental