[cairo] introducing a "context backend"

[Chris Wilson]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:59:12 +1200, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:
> How would people feel about introducing some kind of "context backend" that
> lets pretty much all of the functionality of a cairo_t be passed straight
> through to a platform context backend?

Every problem can be solved with a new layer of abstraction:

  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/cairo/log/?h=cairo_backend_t

It is complete in the sense that everything is unchanged bar the new vfunc.
Comments? Anybody going to whip up a quick proof-of-principle backend?
-ickle

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre