[cairo] CAIROMM: Status type and Xlib

[Murray Cumming]

> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:17:14 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
>>
>> However, Xlib.h has all kinds of other awful non-namespaced crap in it,
>> which can't be fixed without breaking its API. I guess that we should
>> keep Xlib.h out of the public cairo headers if possible.
>
> We tried to mitigate the damage of this in cairo by requiring users to
> include cairo-xlib.h before they can get at the xlib backend in
> cairo. So, at least no users of things other than Xlib will be forced
> to deal with this brain damage.

Yes, I've just done that in cairomm for the XLib and Win32 surfaces.
Problem fixed for now.

> And users that actually _are_ using Xlib will already need to include
> Xlib's public headers and deal with the brain damage anyway. So I
> don't think anything additional is actually needed.
>
> -Carl
>
> PS. Xlib isn't the only offender here. Many of the "native" header
> files that various cairo backends include have similar namespace
> nightmares. So we've segregated cairo-<backend>.h for each.
>


Murray Cumming
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Murray Cumming
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