[cairo] [cairo-announce] cairo release 1.4.10 now available
Allen
allen.saucier at cas-inc.com
Thu Jun 28 06:40:09 PDT 2007
Hello Carl,
I'm a newbie w/ Cairo & the product is GREAT! I use Gtkmm v 2.10.6 for
Windows. I'm compiling w/ .Net 2005. Is there anyway to update my
version of Cairo to the latest version w/o killing my dev environment?
I'd to have all the latest & greatest stable capabilities if I can.
Thanks so much!
Carl Worth wrote:
> A new cairo release 1.4.10 is now available from:
>
> http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz
>
> which can be verified with:
>
> http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz.sha1
> 8371097e30650ec817b24694367110139627403e cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz
>
> http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz.sha1.asc
> (signed by Carl Worth)
>
> Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:
>
> git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo
>
> will include a signed 1.4.10 tag which points to a commit named:
> 107a74885a25e585b467c7841c6929a12aa62565
>
> which can be verified with:
> git verify-tag 1.4.10
>
> and can be checked out with a command such as:
> git checkout -b build 1.4.10
>
> This is the fifth update in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It comes
> roughly three weeks after the 1.4.8 release. The most significant
> change in this release is a fix to avoid an X error in certain cases,
> (that were causing OpenOffice.org to crash in Fedora). There is also a
> semantic change to include child window contents when using an xlib
> surface as a source, an optimization when drawing many rectangles, and
> several minor fixes.
>
> -Carl
>
> Significant changes from cairo 1.4.8 to 1.4.10
> ==============================================
>
> Eliminate X errors that were killing OO.o (Chris Wilson)
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Cairo is fixed to avoid the X errors propagated when cleaning up
> Render Pictures after the application had already destroyed the
> Drawable they reference. (It would be nice if the X server wouldn't
> complain that some cleanup work is already done, but there you have
> it.) This fixes the bug causing OpenOffice.org to crash as described
> here:
>
> XError on right click menus in OOo.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243811
>
> Use IncludeInferiors when using xlib surface as a source (Ryan Lortie)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> When an xlib surface is used as the source of a draw operation the
> contents of child windows are now included in the source data. The
> semantics of drawing to xlib surfaces are unchanged (ie: draws are
> still clipped by child windows overlapping the destination window).
>
> Optimize drawing of many rectangles (Vladimir Vukicevic)
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Avoid O(N*N) loop when filling many axis-aligned rectangles, (either
> many rectangles as separate sub-paths or due to dashing).
>
> Miscellaneous fixes
> -------------------
> Fix cairo-perf on Solaris by linking to librt. (Behdad Esfahbod)
>
> Fix make check for systems that require executable files to have a
> particular extension. (Behdad Esfahbod)
>
> Eliminate some warnings in cairo-quartz. (Brian Ewins)
>
> Fix build-breaking typo for cairo-directfb. (Chris Wilson)
>
> What is cairo
> =============
> Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output
> devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window
> System, win32, and image buffers, as well as PDF, PostScript, and SVG
> file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL (through glitz),
> Quartz, XCB, BeOS, OS/2, and DirectFB.
>
> Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media
> while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available
> (for example, through the X Render Extension).
>
> The cairo API provides operations similar to the drawing operators of
> PostScript and PDF. Operations in cairo including stroking and filling
> cubic Bézier splines, transforming and compositing translucent images,
> and antialiased text rendering. All drawing operations can be
> transformed by any affine transformation (scale, rotation, shear,
> etc.).
>
> Cairo has been designed to let you draw anything you want in a modern
> 2D graphical user interface. At the same time, the cairo API has been
> designed to be as fun and easy to learn as possible. If you're not
> having fun while programming with cairo, then we have failed
> somewhere---let us know and we'll try to fix it next time around.
>
> Cairo is free software and is available to be redistributed and/or
> modified under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public
> License (LGPL) version 2.1 or the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version
> 1.1.
>
> Where to get more information about cairo
> =========================================
> The primary source of information about cairo is:
>
> http://cairographics.org/
>
> The latest releases of cairo can be found at:
>
> http://cairographics.org/releases
>
> Snapshots of in-development versions of cairo:
>
> http://cairographics.org/snapshots
>
> The programming manual for using cairo:
>
> http://cairographics.org/manual
>
> Mailing lists for contacting cairo users and developers:
>
> http://cairographics.org/lists
>
> Answers to some frequently asked questions about cairo:
>
> http://cairographics.org/FAQ
>
> Log of all commits from cairo 1.4.8 to 1.4.10
> =============================================
> Behdad Esfahbod (3):
> [perf] Link to librt if available
> [test] Use check_PROGRAMS instead of custom made SUPPORT_PROGS
> [TODO] Add link to Adrian's finer-grain fallback thread
>
> Brian Ewins (5):
> [quartz] pass quartz_stroke_t not CGContextRef
> commit 75be87b4093aaa7f477d587d5a68308cade1b29c
> [quartz] move glyph array declarations
> [quartz] remove unused code
> [atsui] Document ATSUI
>
> Carl Worth (8):
> Update version to 1.4.9 after the 1.4.8 release.
> Fix cairo-perf-diff to compile cairo-perf explicitly
> Merge branch 'ooo-fix' into cairo
> Revert "[cairo-xlib-surface] Check for errors before installing a NOOP error handler."
> Revert "[cairo-xlib-display] Hide XErrors during processing of the work queue."
> Prefer local dpy variable instead of display->display
> Add notes to NEWS for 1.4.10
> Increment cairo version to 1.4.10 (and libtool versioning to 13:5:11)
>
> Chris Wilson (4):
> [cairo-xlib-surface] Check for errors before installing a NOOP error handler.
> [cairo-xlib-display] Hide XErrors during processing of the work queue.
> [cairo-directfb] Correct minor typo.
> Avoid deferring resource cleanup for application drawables
>
> Nis Martensen (1):
> Update INSTALL about status of backends
>
> Ryan Lortie (1):
> [xlib] Create source xrender Picture with IncludeInferiors
>
> Vladimir Vukicevic (2):
> [misc] Blow away last remaining $Id$ directives in sources
> [perf] Add pixman_region_init_rects and use in extract_region
>
>
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Sincerely, Allen
Gene Allen Saucier, Jr
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