[cairo] Idle thoughts on error propagation

[Vladimir Vukicevic]

On May 1, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:13 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
>>
>> I can imagine a case where this could be wrong.
>>
>> The cairo_t context is conceptually transient for what could be a
>> long-standing surface. For example, if I had an application  
>> creating a
>> new context for the same surface on every expose event, would it be
>> correct to force the surface to shutdown due to an error on the
>> context?
>
> My answer to that is "Yes.  A single error means that the surface does
> not contain the drawing that it's expected to have, so it should be in
> an error state."

I disagree here...  The cairo_t has no foreknowledge of the contents  
that are on the surface -- if the application wants to decide that  
failing rendering on a cairo_t means that the surface is invalid, that  
should be up to the app; it shouldn't be forced on them.

     - Vlad