[cairo] introducing a "context backend"

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Benjamin Otte <otte at redhat.com> wrote:

> So what you basically want is a custom cairo_gstate_t?
>

No, a custom cairo_t. Most of these APIs have their own state save/restore
mechanisms.

I think that's a great idea, I only fear it'd take a lot of code to get
> that abstraction going and to make sure it sits at the right place. And
> only then can you start the "total conversion" for the backends (which
> will probably take almost as long).
>

Yeah, it's a lot of work.

Rob
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