[cairo] Pycairo recording surface

[Sam Tygier]

>Le 23/07/2013 11:38, Sam Tygier a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I asked in 2011 about support for the recording surface in pycairo (so
>> that I don't have to duplicate my drawing code in order to find the
>> extents), and was told that it should be available soon (
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.cairo/21664 ). It looks like the
>> feature it was committed
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pycairo/commit/?id=4bdcaf76248fc18253e4130fd1304b6f3b0ac3ab >> but there has not been a release since then. Is there any plan for a
>> pycairo release, or has it been abandoned?
>
>Hi Sam,
>
>I sent patches for pycairo a few months back and haven’t gotten any 
>response. In the meantime, I made cairocffi which is an API-compatible 
>replacement for pycairo. It runs on Python 2.6+ and 3.x, installs with 
>pip/setuptools, and supports recording surfaces.
> >http://pythonhosted.org/cairocffi/ >http://pythonhosted.org/cairocffi/overview.html#compatibility-with-pycairo >http://pythonhosted.org/cairocffi/api.html#recordingsurface >
>Using CFFI instead of a custom C extension makes it much easier to 
>maintain. If you need anything that’s in cairo but missing in cairocffi 
>just open a Github issue, it should be easy to add.
>
>Cheers,
>-- 
>Simon Sapin

Should we be lobbying to get distros to replace pycairo with cairocffi?

I found a fedora request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986715


Should the cairo website be recommending cairocffi


Thanks,

Sam