On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:31:43 +0100, Tobias Jakobs <tobias.jakobs@...128...> wrote:
On 3/23/06, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote:
- Xara is considerably faster
Xara's renderer is fast, but Cairo with OpenGL is even faster.
But if Cairo gets Xara renderer, it will be just as fast.
Carl Worth (Cairo) talked a lot with the Xara programmers at the LGM. And as far as I know the plan was to make Xara's renderer GPL and then write an Caito backend.
Hmm. That sounds hopeful, but I wonder how that works with Cairo's LGPL/MPL license otherwise?
If the Xara Cairo backend remained GPLed, then only GPL/LGPLed software could use that particular backend (not a problem for *us*, but...), and it couldn't replace the default software backend in Cairo (or else Cairo would be useless to non-GPLed software).
Anyway, so far it's premature, since Xara's renderer is the part which is not opensourced yet (it remains a binary lib in their source tarball).
An other reason to use Cairo is, we will get PDF and PS export for free.
That's a good point.
-mental