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GL and GLES support of cairo was removed since 1.17.8.

Open songww opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

songww avatar Mar 04 '23 09:03 songww

Ugh. That's unfortunate.

So, I guess it's blend2d or Skia in the future?

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cubicool avatar Mar 04 '23 10:03 cubicool

Maybe ?

I was wondering about maintaining a branch with just the nogl patch reverted.

I got a little into the weeds around automatically cherry picking the commits from the master branch.

Of course it would still probably hit a point where it might be tricky to keep up.

It's a shame, as I think even if the performance isn't as optimal as an API built with modern GL in mind, there's good value in having the same API as the other back ends.

stuaxo avatar Mar 04 '23 16:03 stuaxo

@rjopek also started various projects to try GL and cairo https://github.com/dev-harbour

As well as starting cairo-list github.com/cairo-list/cairo-list

There was a bit of a chicken + egg problem, where the GL backend wasn't turned on, as it wasn't ready - and so nobody used it.

stuaxo avatar Mar 04 '23 18:03 stuaxo