Will Cairo be packaged for FC3 ?

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Wed Aug 11 17:30:29 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 11:24, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 03:51, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> > Hi, Wanted to ask the following questions
> > 
> > a) Will there be a package of a cairo snapshot for FC3 ?
> 
> Not as part of FC3. Generally, libraries will only be added to
> the distribution if they are:
> 
>  A) Reasonably stable
>  B) Used by some application we want to ship
> 
> > b) Will the Mozilla packaged in FC3 render through Pango or will it just
> >    be XFT based ?
> 
> It will be Xft based.

Looks like I read this wrong ... I read "render through Cairo" ... 
our hope at this point is to have Mozilla rendering via 
Pango (and Pango then using Xft), but its still a bit up 
in the air.

Regards,
						Owen

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