[cairo] [cairo-announce] cairo snapshot 1.9.12 now available

Petr Kobalíček kobalicek.petr at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 07:10:23 PDT 2010


Hi,

long is 32-bit type under windows, changing int to long was mistake.

-- 
Best regards
- Petr Kobalicek <http://kobalicek.com>

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>wrote:

> A new cairo snapshot 1.9.12 is now available from:
>
>        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz
>
>    which can be verified with:
>
>        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz.sha1
>        486a0b6855aa63bcb333f6ac63307ae8647035ba  cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz
>
>        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz.sha1.asc
>        (signed by Chris Wilson)
>
>  Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:
>
>        git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo
>
>    will include a signed 1.9.12 tag which points to a commit named:
>        aa4cd8287f47b4538e765e1b48dcbac19813a8a2
>
>    which can be verified with:
>        git verify-tag 1.9.12
>
>    and can be checked out with a command such as:
>        git checkout -b build 1.9.12
>
> Snapshot 1.9.12 (2010-07-12)
> ============================
>
>  A couple of weeks spent fixing those annoying bugs and cleaning up the
> build
>  system; the list of outstanding tasks to complete for the stable release
> is
>  finally shrinking. The chief bug fixer has been Benjamin Otte who not only
>  made sure that the public API is consistent and being tested for its
>  consistency, but also ensured that the documentation was up-to-date and
>  spent time clarifying cases where even the Cairo developers have come
>  unstuck in the past. Many thanks, Benjamin. However, he was not alone,
>  as Andrea Canciani continued his fine work in isolating broken corner
> cases
>  and proceeding to fix them, and tidying up the quartz backend. And last,
> but
>  definitely not least, M Joonas Pihlaja tried building Cairo across a
>  perverse range of systems and fixed up all the loose bits of code that
> came
>  unravelled. Thanks everybody!
>
> API Changes
> -----------
>
>  cairo_surface_set_mime_data, cairo_surface_get_mime_data:
>
>    The length parameter is now an unsigned long (as opposed to an unsigned
>    int). The parameter is intended to be an equivalent to a size_t without
>    requiring POSIX types and be large enough to store the size of the
>    largest possible allocation.
>
>  cairo_gl_surface_create_for_texture:
>
>    This a new surface constructor for cairo-gl that explicitly enables
>    render-to-texture for foreign, i.e. application, textures.
>
>  cairo_region_xor, cairo_region_xor_rectangle
>
>    A couple of utility routines add to the region handling interface for
>    the purpose of replacing existing GdkRegion functionality.
>
> Bugs fixes
> ----------
>
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/600622
>
>    Inkscape was caught in the act of attempting to modify a finished
> surface.
>    Unfortunately, we had the ordering of our guards and assertions wrong
> and
>    so an ordinary application error was triggering an assert in Cairo. This
>    lead Benjamin to add a test case to ensure that the entire public API
>    could handle erroneous input and then proceeded to fix a whole slew of
>    uncovered bugs.
>
>
>  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28888
>
>    A regression introduced by the special casing of uploading images to an
>    xlib surface in-place which was ignoring the translation applied to the
>    image.
>
> -Chris
>
> Complete lists of changes between 1.9.10 and 1.9.12
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Andrea Canciani (12):
>      quartz-font: silence compiler warnings
>      quartz: improve text transform handling
>      quartz: check return status
>      quartz-font: correct and explain matrix computations
>      quartz: remove unused os version info
>      quartz: remove unused declarations
>      ft-font: fix typo
>      user-font: ignore translation in scale matrix
>      user-font: correct handling of size 0 text
>      test: fix typo
>      test: Add quartz functions to api-special-cases test
>      test: Add halo quartz reference images
>
> Benjamin Otte (68):
>      boilerplate: Add a describe vfunc
>      gl: Add describe string
>      boilerplate: Add describe string
>      perf: print comment describing backend
>      configure: remove shave
>      configure: Use automake silent rules
>      tests: Add a testcase that checks APIs work consistently
>      surface: don't call begin_modification on finished surfaces
>      surface: Fail early if create_similar() is called on a finished
> surface
>      surface: Fail if set_mime_data() is called on a finished surface
>      subsurface: Fail if created from a finished surface
>      configure: remove dolt
>      test: Add a new test variant to api-special-cases test
>      test: add image surface functions to api-special-cases test
>      test: Add a non-error surface check
>      test: add PNG functions
>      test: Add recording and tee surface functions to api-special-cases
>      tee: Add proper error handling
>      Call _cairo_error() when setting the FINISHED error on surfaces
>      test: Add gl functions to the tests
>      gl: Fail properly when called with finished functions
>      pdf: Set error when extracting from finished surface
>      ps: Set error when extracting from finished surface
>      ps: Allow specifying if errors on extract_surface should be set
>      svg: Set error when extracting from finished surface
>      test: Add ps, pdf and svg to the api-special-cases test
>      test: Add xcb and xlib functions to api-special-cases test
>      xcb: Setters should set finished surfaces into an error status
>      xlib: Setters should set finished surfaces into an error status
>      test: Add documentation to the api-special-cases test
>      test: Add note about how to fix failures to api-special-cases
>      region: Add cairo_region_xor() and cairo_region_xor_rectangle()
>      gl: Fix compile error after rebase failure
>      doc: Add drm and glew to the ignored directories
>      glew: The headers are private, not public
>      doc: Add cairo_rectangle_int_t to the general types list
>      doc: Add cairo_in_clip() to cairo_t section
>      doc: Add a section for cairo_device_t
>      doc: Add missing surface APIs
>      doc: Add a section about regions
>      skia: Add cairo-skia.h as a public header
>      drm: Fix Makefile for drm_xr
>      doc: add --name-space option to gtkdoc-mkdb
>      doc: Add list of new symbol in Cairo 1.10
>      doc: Fix some consistency issues that confuse gtk-doc
>      doc: Remove CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB16_565 from hidden symbols list
>      doc: Move tmpl/ docs to inline docs
>      doc: Fix a syntax issue in quartz-font gtkdoc
>      doc: Add missing region documentation
>      doc: Remove the <TITLE> declarations
>      doc: Copy docs for standard device APIs
>      doc: Clarify that cairo_surface_get_device() can return NULL
>      doc: Add more documentation for devices
>      doc: Document remaining cairo-device functions
>      gl: Remove double ** from some comments
>      doc: Add "@Since: 1.10" tags to device docs
>      build: Get rid of $(foo_files) Makefile.am variables
>      build: Fix C++ issues with automake
>      gl: Use unsigned int instead of GLuint
>      build: copy/paste failure: Don't build libcxx.la
>      build: Remove wrong flags from libcairo_cxx.la
>      build: fix glew include
>      build: Commit new versions of autogenerate Windows build files
>      build: Fix typo that makes C++ libs not build
>      qt: Define cairo-qt's API as C symbols
>      build: Split boilerplate lib generation into two so's
>      check: Allow unprefix type names in the title
>      doc: Make the necessity of flush/mark_dirty more obvious
>
> Chris Wilson (10):
>      version: 1.9.9
>      xlib: Compile without fontconfig
>      xlib: Apply translation to image surface upload.
>      user-font: Check the status before destroying the context
>      subsurface: Don't assume we ever own the target.
>      Convert mime data length to use unsigned long
>      Make distcheck happy.
>      test: Missing REFERENCE_IMAGES
>      NEWS for 1.9.12.
>      version: 1.9.12 snapshot
>
> Colin Walters (1):
>      Support NOCONFIGURE environment variable
>
> Eric Anholt (1):
>      gl: Only use a mat3 for the transformation for gradients coordinates.
>
> Kristian Høgsberg (1):
>      gl: Add new cairo-gl surface constructor to create surface for texture
>
> M Joonas Pihlaja (9):
>      build: Factor out a more pliable CAIRO_CC_TRY_LINK_WITH_ENV_SILENT.
>      build: Purge CAIRO_CC_TRY_LINK_FLAG.
>      build: Rework pthread detection.
>      build: Fix regression provoked by newer autoconf and dodgy
> configuring.
>      build: Fix typo in pthread test program.
>      build: Avoid shifting shell parameters that aren't there.
>      trace: Avoid stdbool.h C99ism.
>      build: Sync up autogenerated win32 build files.
>      test: Add comments explaining the bug in bug-seams.
>
>
> What is cairo
> =============
> Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output
> devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window
> System, quartz, win32, and image buffers, as well as PDF, PostScript,
> and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL, XCB, BeOS,
> OS/2, and DirectFB.
>
> Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media
> while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available
> (for example, through the X Render Extension).
>
> The cairo API provides operations similar to the drawing operators of
> PostScript and PDF. Operations in cairo include stroking and filling
> cubic Bézier splines, transforming and compositing translucent images,
> and antialiased text rendering. All drawing operations can be
> transformed by any affine transformation (scale, rotation, shear,
> etc.).
>
> Cairo has been designed to let you draw anything you want in a modern
> 2D graphical user interface.  At the same time, the cairo API has been
> designed to be as fun and easy to learn as possible. If you're not
> having fun while programming with cairo, then we have failed
> somewhere---let us know and we'll try to fix it next time around.
>
> Cairo is free software and is available to be redistributed and/or
> modified under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public
> License (LGPL) version 2.1 or the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version
> 1.1.
>
> Where to get more information about cairo
> =========================================
> The primary source of information about cairo is:
>
>        http://cairographics.org/
>
> The latest versions of cairo can always be found at:
>
>        http://cairographics.org/download
>
> Documentation on using cairo and frequently-asked questions:
>
>        http://cairographics.org/documentation
>        http://cairographics.org/FAQ
>
> Mailing lists for contacting cairo users and developers:
>
>        http://cairographics.org/lists
>
> Roadmap and unscheduled things to do, (please feel free to help out):
>
>        http://cairographics.org/roadmap
>        http://cairographics.org/todo
>
> --
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>
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