Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Move from CDraw to AGG

["Jose Hevia" <jose.francisco.hevia@xxxxxxxxx>]

2007/2/28, Arlen Albert <arlen.albert@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello all.
>
> Cairo is a good choice to replace the CDraw XaraLX default graphical engine.
> But why none of you want to consider the alternative excellent

It has been considered. I'm waiting for Sourceforge to add a new
project that will aim to create the cairo port. The first step is to
create something usable, and some infrastructure(documentation and
profiling) to modularize-understand it. I think cairo is the best
option here.

This is the hard part, for someone outside Xara headquarters. If it's
is accomplished, it could be use for creating new backends.

> graphical engine written in C++ and available for any possible
> platforms under GPL since the version 2.5 - AGG (stands for Anti-Grain
> Geometry). Recently, I've asked Xara dev team at the forum to do the
> comparisons between CDraw and AGG but the request was silently
> ignored.

I might recall Maxim Shemanarev doing this in terms of quality of the
engine.Of course AGG was better in his tests.

> I'm sure, most of you already knows the library I'm talking about. For
> those who doesn't I give the URL: http://www.antigrain.com
>
> I suggest to discus the possibility to use AGG instead of Cairo for
> the CDraw replacement.

First we need to make a CDraw replacement a reality.