[cairo] Proposal to disable PDF and PS backends by default for 1.0

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Wed Aug 24 07:23:01 PDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:11 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> If you disable them, please remember to take out
> -DCAIRO_HAS_PS_SURFACE and -DCAIRO_HAS_PDF_SURFACE from the cairo.def
> rule in src/Makefile.am... otherwise 1.0 will have a misleading
> cairo.def in the tarball.

Probably a good idea in any case, since the PDF and PS backends 

 A) Won't be compiled on Win32 unless you have FreeType installed

 B) Won't produce text on Win32 unless you have the Win32 font
    backend disabled, since they can't handle Win32 backend fonts
    at the moment.

Regards,
						Owen

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