[cairo] introducing a "context backend"

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> On 04/22/2010 07:59 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> > How would people feel about introducing some kind of "context backend"
> > that lets pretty much all of the functionality of a cairo_t be passed
> > straight through to a platform context backend?
>
> My only concern would be that it would make it much much more difficult to
> provide the same level of fidelity that we currently provide across
> different
> backends.
>

I doubt it will be much more difficult than it already is for the D2D and
Quartz backends.

Rob
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