On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:24:45AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Dave Beckett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Package name : pycairo
Version : 0.5.1
Upstream Author : James Henstridge, Steve Chaplin, Kevin Worth
URL : http://cairographics.org/snapshots/
License : LGPL / MPL
Description : Python language bindings for the Cairo vector graphics
library
This package contains modules that allow you to use the Cairo vector
graphics library in Python programs.
I've been packaging this for several years, tracking cairo snapshots.
ITP now as it seems to be needed for pygtk and cairo is heading
towards a stable API. Initial packages are available from
http://cairographics.org/packages/debian/unstable/
I heared rumours that the cairo development is dead at the
moment and will not be development in the future....
That's a rather bizarre rumour.
Yes, rather.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2005/07/gecko_19.html
In any case, Dave is also the libcairo maintainer for Debian, so is well
positioned to know its status.
The rumours are entirely wrong.
Cairo has just shipped the first release (0.9.0) with APIs and ABIs now
now maintained as stable. 1.0 should appear very shortly.
It's being used by GNU classpath (for Java 2D) used with GCJ 4.0, Mozilla
Firefox (for SVG), Mono (for 2D graphics/GDI+), Gnome Pango/GTK+ 2.7+ for
all it's rendering and probably several other projects.
If anything, it's more mature and developed than ever.
It has been available and packaged by myself in Debian for several years
and on the Cairo site itself, there are debs for the entire suite of
Cairo-related software which are not appropriate for entering Debian:
http://cairographics.org/packages/debian/
Remember guys, don't believe all you read, especially anything on
OSNews :)
Dave
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