Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend

2006-12-25 Thread Gregory John Casamento
All, I've been thinking about deprecating the Xlib backend, so that we can focus more on Cairo. I have discussed this with Fred and I would like to know what everone else thinks about it. Later, GJC -- Gregory Casamento ## GNUstep Chief Maintainer

Re: Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend

2006-12-25 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 25 Dec 2006, at 14:59, Gregory John Casamento wrote: All, I've been thinking about deprecating the Xlib backend, so that we can focus more on Cairo. I have discussed this with Fred and I would like to know what everone else thinks about it. Depends what is meant by 'deprecate'. It

Re: Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend

2006-12-25 Thread Gregory John Casamento
Richard, The reasons behind the move to Cairo are as follows: 1) Cairo is being used by a number of other projects. It is very stable and well maintained. 2) Cairo has been ported to a number of other operating systems, including windows and has a large number of output targets. This way,

Re: Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend

2006-12-25 Thread Fred Kiefer
Gregory John Casamento schrieb: Richard, The reasons behind the move to Cairo are as follows: 1) Cairo is being used by a number of other projects. It is very stable and well maintained. 2) Cairo has been ported to a number of other operating systems, including windows and has a large

Re: Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend

2006-12-25 Thread Gregory John Casamento
It's done then... Both XLIB and ART will be deprecated in the near future. We are shifting focus onto the Cairo backend. Development efforts on the backend should concentrate on getting the Cairo backend up and running. Once this is done XLIB and ART backends will stay in the repo for a

Re: Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend

2006-12-25 Thread Yen-Ju Chen
On 12/25/06, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregory John Casamento schrieb: Richard, The reasons behind the move to Cairo are as follows: 1) Cairo is being used by a number of other projects. It is very stable and well maintained. 2) Cairo has been ported to a number of other

Re: Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend

2006-12-25 Thread Christopher Armstrong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking about deprecating the Xlib backend, so that we can focus more on Cairo. I have discussed this with Fred and I would like to know what everone else thinks about it. I think the less backends the better, as its less code to maintain. That said,