<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi;</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 23:56, Dave Yeo <<a href="mailto:dave.r.yeo@gmail.com">dave.r.yeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
As an OS/2 user, it would be a shame to see the os2surface dropped, <br>
though I do notice that currently "yum info cairo" reports that it is <br>
version 1.12.18 that ships with current OS/2.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just for context: Cairo 1.12.18 was released in 2012.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
It is understandable about the maintenance burden, and currently we <br>
don't have meson support and meson seems pretty rigid so adding support <br>
would be non-trivial from a quick look, especially as OS/2 (actually <br>
ArcOS, <a href="http://www.arcanoae.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.arcanoae.com</a>) currently only ships Python2.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, the dependency on Meson alone would require depending on Python3, which is why the OS/2 (and BeOS) support is unconditionally disabled in the Meson build.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I do think that even after backporting any relevant fixes to the 1.16 <br>
branch, it should be left open for other fixes. I maintain a few parts <br>
of OS/2 such as the screensaver which uses Cairo for some modules and <br>
have patches that should be applied. I haven't posted them due to the <br>
lack of maintainer-ship amongst other reasons.<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Keeping 1.16 open for long-term, niche platform fixes is perfectly fine.</div><div><br></div><div>Ciao,</div><div> Emmanuele.<br></div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><a href="https://www.bassi.io" target="_blank">https://www.bassi.io</a><br>[@] ebassi [@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>]</div></div>