[cairo] cairo-trace

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon Aug 11 08:54:33 PDT 2008


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Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'd like to include cairo-trace, derived from Jeff Muizelaar's
> libcairowrap, in cairo/util. It has matured to the point where (after a
> make install) "cairo-trace program" simply works - significantly
> lowering the barrier for adoption ;-) No doubt it could do with some
> more love and a lot of critique.

Nice.

> The current incarnation lives at
> git://people.freedesktop.org/~ickle/cairo-trace.
> 
> The steps for inclusion, as I see it, are officially blessing the
> project and giving it a toplevel git repo. Then adding it as a git
> submodule to cairo/util and spreading some magic autoconf to optionally
> build it (taking into account the extra complications of using a
> submodule).
> 
> I'm not 100% convinced that it belongs within cairo, hence my suggestion
> for an external project and submodule approach, but adding it to
> cairo/util does make it much more convenient for the casual developer,
> as has been suggested by Behdad and Carl.

I like including it in cairo itself.  Note that by doing that we can
automatically generate list of functions.

I'll look into this after pushing the snapshot right now.

behdad
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