[cairo] win32 backend failure with Cairo 1.0.4

[Carl Worth]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:29:48 -0700 (PDT), Mikael Claesson wrote:
>
> Ok, but perhaps the 1.0.4 release should somehow be
> marked as unsuitable for use on the win32 platform?

We can put notes up somewhere, (we're doing that in the email archives
already with these messages back and forth). But obviously we can't
change the files in the 1.0.4 release itself---it wouldn't be 1.0.4 if
we did that.

It might very well make sense to have a page on the cairographics.org
website indicating known bugs in the releases. That's something that
anyone has permission to do---so feel free to click the Login link and
register to create/edit a page like that.

> Should it really be referred to as "production-ready"
> when it doesn't work if the user has a 16-bit desktop?

Please address that comment to anyone that has described cairo as
"production-ready" to you. Don't forget that all the code in cairo is
explicitly marked as follows:

 * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY
 * OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the LGPL or the MPL for
 * the specific language governing rights and limitations.

> Also, 1.0.4 seems to be part of Tor Lillqvists GTK+
> release for Windows. Perhaps it should be downgraded
> to 1.0.2?

That's up to Tor, of course.

> Lastly, I notice that the new code in 1.1.10 doesn't
> support 4-bit displays.

Yes. That's correct.

-Carl
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