Sorry -- I meant remove the check for cairo >= 1.8.
Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Can you write it in such a way that the check is only removed on cairo <
> 1.8? My employer is still standardized on RHEL4, for example, which has
> cairo 1.2.
>
> Mike
>
> Michiel de Hoon wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> The draw_path method in backend_cairo.py starts with a check for the number
>> of vertices in the path, and raises an error if the path contains more than
>> 18980 vertices:
>>
>> def draw_path(self, gc, path, transform, rgbFace=None):
>> if len(path.vertices) > 18980:
>> raise ValueError("The Cairo backend can not draw paths longer
>> than 18980 points.")
>>
>> This was needed in the past when cairo version 1.4.10 / pycairo version
>> 1.4.0 would segfault:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=487E2E78.1050501%40stsci.edu
>>
>> However, we're now at cairo, pycairo version 1.8.8, and I haven't seen any
>> segfaults after removing this check.
>>
>> Does anybody object if I remove this check from the code?
>>
>> --Michiel.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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