<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3247"><span>Hi,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span> A question for cairo maintainers, not so much pycairo maintainers as AFAICT there are none.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3545" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3641"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250">What needs to happen for there to be a release of PyCairo ?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3523"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3640"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3307"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250">While there is Qairah, which provides a nicer API and CairoCFFI, there is a lot of legacy code out there, + pycairo is the easiest way to integrate with Gtk, Pango etc.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3345" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3755" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3522" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250">Problems with PyCairo as is include:</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3767" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3482" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250">- No support for mesh etc (patched by Vincent A) <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3582" href="https://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2015-June/026326.html">https://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2015-June/026326.html</a><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3503" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250">- Doesn't build on python3.5 out the box (Patched by Ubuntu and FREEBSD) <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3502" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76759">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76759</a><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3688" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250">- Cannot install from Pypi (might need a .whl to work on windows)<br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3689" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3250"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3248"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3483"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3549" dir="ltr">@SimonSapin has collected patches, as I'm sure have others.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3552" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3571" class="" href="https://github.com/SimonSapin/pycairo">https://github.com/SimonSapin/pycairo</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473860350332_3583"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="signature">S++</div></div></body></html>