[cairo] Java-GNOME adding cairo bindings
mental at rydia.net
mental at rydia.net
Fri Feb 11 17:12:48 PST 2005
Quoting Jeff Morgan <kuzman at gmail.com>:
> 1. The method that CairoJava uses to store pointers ... could have
> problems on certain platforms.
> 2. There is a dependency on the swt libraries.
> 3. We package all of our projects using the gnu build tools such
> as automake and libtool.
All of these sound like issues that are important for an official
Cairo binding in general, rather than being specific to Java-GNOME
(though the last one is more a matter of taste IMO).
> If there is a desire to create a common bindings package I would
> be interested in discussing what is required. At a minimum we
> would need to address the three items described above.
I can't speak for the maintainers myself. You will likely have to
forge some sort of compromise on the build system; possibly
parallel Eclipse and autofoo build setups. Ideally the end result
would be equally usable with SWT and with Java-GNOME too, probably
with the SWT-specific stuff becoming a separate library just as
gtkcairo is.
-mental
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