Seems reasonable (and I agree) however playing devils advocate: if we're going to need cairo down the road anyhow we may as well rip that band-aid off now and deal with the pain of building it rather than building libharu now and cairo later.
--Ray On 2020-12-11 10:47 a.m., Brecht Van Lommel via Bf-committers wrote: > So weighing the options, to me libharu seems like the most reasonable > solution. > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:51 AM Campbell Barton via Bf-committers < > bf-committers@blender.org> wrote: > >> By this logic we could blindly accept any patch that's had some production >> testing, without considering long term maintenance. >> >> It's possible alternative solutions that call out to existing well >> maintained >> converters would have been fine in production too. >> It's not that I'm pushing back against including this entirely, >> I'm just not a fan of this "it worked in a production test - so lets >> include it" -- attitude. >> >> Over the years I believe we've spent significant time investigating >> issues with 3rd party libraries (resource leaks, conflicting symbols, >> linking problems, platform specific errors etc). >> If there is a good chance we can avoid this entirely, it could be >> worth looking into. >> >> If we do include libharu, how would this be included? in extern/ or >> would we bundle it in SVN's lib? >> >> On 12/10/20 8:26 PM, Dalai Felinto wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> My suggestion would be the following: >>> >>> * Stick to libharu since it was proven that works for the intended use >>> case. >>> * Make sure libharu integration in the code goes via a layer of >>> abstraction. >>> >>> So instead of trying now to solve an non-existent problem, we use >>> development time to make sure the existing solution is robust enough to >>> be replaced if needs be. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Dalai >>> >>> On 09-12-2020 23:34, Campbell Barton via Bf-committers wrote: >>>> rsvg-convert (which uses cairo), is a utility that converts SVG to >>>> PDF, it can create multi-page PDF's from many SVG's too. >>>> >>>> If for some reason we need more control then a command line utility >>>> provides, there are Python multiple options regarding bindings for >>>> cairo & svg conversion. >>>> From what I can tell they can convert SVG to PDF quite easily. >>>> >>>> Regarding bundling the conversion tools, if this it's only a few >>>> studios with specific requirements, we don't _necessarily_ need to >>>> include the conversion utilities with Blender, although this is a >>>> decision we could easily change. >>>> >>>> I'm not pushing for this as the final solution, just checking if it >>>> might be a simpler option compared to taking on a PDF library that >>>> isn't maintained anymore. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bf-committers mailing list >>>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
