Re: Someone may want to fork cairo backend development. Oh deer!

[Adam Fedor]

On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 06:04 AM, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:

> So I decided to link Maliwan (http://maliwan.sf.net) into my 
> implementation
> of cairo backend finally. And may be someone want to fork the 
> development away?
> I can't resist my own Maliwan hype! And it will be in just for system 
> color
> profile managements and color transforms. So I have to say now, I want 
> Maliwan to be
> the default color framework for GNUstep. But feel free to start your 
> own implementation if you
> don't like this since the profile using isn't really important if you 
> aren't so color-critical,
> and I understand that inviting more 2 dependencies (Maliwan & lcms) is 
> annoying.
> I can put #ifdef later but not for now because, for me, DTP is 
> everything to do with GNUstep.

Well, I'd like to have good color management in GNUstep as well, and be 
able to leverage off of existing projects - Maliwand and lcms seems 
like a great choice. Although there are dependancy issues, I think 
that's a problem we have to try to deal with better.