[cairo] Cairo and GdiPlus or two win32 backends

[Keith Packard]

Around 23 o'clock on Jan 16, Hans Breuer wrote:

> every Gimp specific text processing is done on 
> top of freetype/fontconfig cause they provides a richer api.

The goal is to provide native font APIs on each platform, but to also 
allow FreeType/fontconfig on any platform.  This way applications get to 
choose between inter- and intra- platform consistency.

Btw -- what functionality does the Gimp require that Windows doesn't
provide?

-keith


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