Re: making cairo mandatory in vcl

Il 19/11/2015 10:23, Caolán McNamara ha scritto:
> On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 10:53 +0100, Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Il 16/11/2015 10:37, Caolán McNamara ha scritto:
> > > On Sat, 2015-11-14 at 17:00 +0100, Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote:
> > > > Hi Caolàn, all,
> > > >
> > > > in [0] and [1] you made cairo mandatory for *nix platforms. This
> > > > breaks
> > > > --without-x but that's no big deal, i'll add some specific
> > > > ifdefery.
> > > > I have a couple of questions:
> > > > - is there a plan to kill non cairo rendering?
> > >
> > > I'd like to yes. The non-cairo text rendering is only used in the
> > > svp path at the moment. i.e. basically I'd move the gtk3 use of
> > > cairo text rendering down to svp and have it for all svp using
> > > platforms, allowing a big piece of code to be deleted and have one
> > > text-rendering path instead of two there.
> >
> > Removing that code would make things a bit difficult for --without-x.
>
> How does this make things difficult for without-X. It just replaces the
> existing headless text renderer with one based on cairo ?

We should now link against cairo and the system one is usually linked against 
X11. So i think i'm going to just build the libo shipped one and see how it goes.


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