[cairo] XCB backend : stable for 1.10 ?

[Frederic Crozat]

Le 05/01/2010 17:00, Chris Wilson a écrit :
> On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:31:54 +0100, Frederic Crozat<fcrozat at mandriva.com>  wrote:
>> I've got some request on Mandriva cooker about enabling XCB backend in
>> our cairo package and I'm a bit reluctant (even if our SUSE and Ubuntu
>> friends enabled it), since it is not considered stable and because it
>> would pull "hard" dependency on any software linked to cairo (since
>> cairo backends aren't plugins.
>>
>> Is there any plan regarding API stability for XCB backend for Cairo 1.10 ?
>
> It's even worse than you might have feared... My suggestion is that we use
> the XCB backend as the preferred X11 backend in 1.10 (so long as XCB is
> available at configure time). The rationale being that cairo-xlib has some
> thread-safety issues that can be simply resolved in conjunction with
> switching to cairo-xcb. The issue with pulling in extra dependencies is
> moot as libX11 now also depends upon libxcb, with the only extra, slightly
> unusual, one being libX11-xcb so that we can continue supporting
> cairo-xlib on top of cairo-xcb.

Well, it might not be as bad as I thought ;)

Anyway, if it is the plan, I'd suggest to do the switch for the next 
snapshot, to catch any issue that might append, better sooner than later.


-- 
Frederic Crozat
Mandriva