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Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Moving to Cairo (was Ping)



On 21 Feb 2007, at 15:40, Alex Bligh wrote:
I don't think introducing what effectively would be a shim library
(converting CDraw calls to Cairo calls) is going to be particularly helpful
and it would maintain an API (the CDraw API) which wasn't particularly
polished and has no degree of guaranteed stability anyway.

while i fully agree (maintaining hacks to keep an interface such as, i think this brings up an important point. what happens to the code base if the "open source version" diverges in design?

cheers,
Alex

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