[cairo] Cairocks, etc.

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:11:59PM -0500, Jeremy Moles wrote:
> (I tried to bump my old 2014 Cairocks post yesterday, but it doesn't
> appear to have worked. So I'm posting something totally new.)

I've added mention of this to Cairo's examples web page.

Bryce
 
> I've have been slowly adding features to my Cairo utility library
> over the last few years. It has actually become quite mature over
> the last few months, and I wanted to shoot another post to the lists
> to encourage people to check it out and add their own tidbits to it.
> Here are some links:
> 
> Cairocks:
>     https://github.com/cubicool/cairocks/#features
> 
> Example code for using cairo-gl and SDL2:
> 
>     https://github.com/cubicool/cairo-gl-sdl2
> 
> In addition to getting comments (and perhaps more code!), I'd like
> to solicit some feedback on whether a name change on my project
> might encourage other people to use and/or take it more seriously. I
> was thinking something like "cairoutil" or "cairou" (with the
> additional "u" being in the style of libGLU for OpenGL).
> 
> NOTE: There is also a nice little cairocffi-based Python3 companion
> module with Cairocks: cairockscffi. It uses Simon Sapin's fantastic
> module, and even has a hook for merging/monkey-patching the cairocks
> API with a standard cairocffi.Context class. Neat stuff.
> 
> Anyways, enjoy! And let me know how you feel about the name change.
> 
> P. S. If you have __ANY__ neat little tidbits of Cairo code laying
> around you think I might like, please send it my way! I BEG OF YOU!
> :) We use Cairo here at the office for our medical software, and I
> literally would not have a job without it!
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