[cairo] A theme (and challenge) for 1.8.2: Eliminating XFAILs!

[Craig Bradney]

On Tuesday 21 October 2008 00:03:34 Carl Worth wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:29 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> > So here are my two questions for everybody:
> >
> > 1. Is there anything in current cairo master that should be fixed before
> > 1.8.2 ?
>
> Behdad has requested I drop the "internal font face" commits. I think
> that means these:
>
> 	commit d5a998387bcee6569d33375d592190f480f12712
> 	Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
> 	    Add an internal font face
>
> 	commit f8542dc9dd4dd0685f68381f21fa72dbddd8d682
> 	Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
> 	    [twin-font] Clean up font data by joining lines and closing paths
>
> 	commit 9662be8ee77e219908b64b82e828d577dcf120f0
> 	Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
> 	    [twin-font] Adjust ascent/descent
>
> 	commit 6578ac148ecdd236b0860923e5dee87291c9966c
> 	Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
> 	    [twin-font] Make the stroke lighter
>
> 	commit 8cf399b944294645833088ee2ac1313093948b66
> 	Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> 	    [test] Add a test to exercise the internal twin font
>
> So I'll rebase current master to make a new 1.8 branch that elides those
> three commits, (and any others that I find are required0.
>
> > 2. Is there anything that's not yet in cairo master that should be added
> > before 1.8.2?
>
> Since I asked, Chris has pushed out a lot of locking fixes based on
> lockdep testing. It's always a bit scary to see MUTEX_LOCK/UNLOCK
> changes right before a release, but I'm more comfortable that these are
> based on problems and solutions verified with an automatic tool. And
> it's lovely to see thing like:
>
> 	assert (CAIRO_HOLDS_MUTEX (scaled_font->mutex));
>
> throughout the code. This makes the code more readable, and isn't just
> decoration, but is the condition verified by lockdep.
>
> I've also read through the big batch of changes that Chris just pushed,
> and I'm willing to signoff on them.
>
> Chris has said he has one last issue to fix, but I haven't heard
> anything from anyone else. So once he says he's done, I'll go ahead and
> create 1.8.2 as described above.
>

Was there ever a fix put in for the cairo bug shown in Scribus where faint 
lines were drawn on the canvas? http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=6971
Franz ended up working around this somehow but its a bit of a hack IIRC.

thanks
Craig
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