[cairo] introducing a "context backend"

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>wrote:

> > The goal is to then to pass the information to the backend immediately,
> > > and convert the existing implementation into a library of core helpers
> > > that the backends may choose to use or to assist them in their task.
> >
> >
> > That's one way to do it. With that approach, the existing backends would
> > fill their function tables with pointers to the "default implementation".
> >
> > Another way to do it would be more like the surface backends; make the
> > default be NULL and have cairo_ functions call through to the backend
> > function if it's non-NULL, otherwise continue on with the default
> > implementation.
>
> The trouble here is that this is often labelled the "mid-layer mistake".


Sure, makes sense.

Rob
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