[cairo] gobject boxed types

[Travis Griggs]

On Sep 13, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote:

> Colin Walters wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We had a short discussion about this on #gtk+ a few days ago.
>> Basically, it would greatly help the GObject-based stack above Cairo
>> (GTK+, HippoCanvas, GooCanvas, Clutter, etc.) if we had official
>> GObject "boxed" types for Cairo objects.
>>
>> This is necessary because the GTypes are used in things like signals
>> to specify argument types, and language bindings need that data.   
>> Now,
>> one possibility Matthias Clasen suggested would be to put these in
>> GDK, which would be somewhat tricky from a layering perspective
>> (neither Pango nor Clutter for example currently depend on GDK as far
>> as I know), but might be workable.  Another possibility is to put  
>> them
>> in Cairo itself, optionally enabled.
>>
>> Just to be extremely clear the goal is not to have cairo hard depend
>> on GLib in any way - for example Mozilla on Windows/OS X and any  
>> other
>> embedded type cases would ship with this off and things should be
>> fine. I do expect however that freedesktop.org/Linux OS vendors and
>> the like would ship with this enabled.
>>
>
> Currently i use cairo in windows without dependency to glib or gtk.  
> From
> what you said it will be possible to build cairo without glib  
> dependency
> but the build that comes with gtk will be linked to glib.
>
> The problem is that my users and i download cairo from gtk
> (http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html), so i would have to build
> cairo myself  or find a glib free cairo binary elsewhere.

+1

Please keep Cairo as dependency free as possible.

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Travis Griggs
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