Re: Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend

[Christopher Armstrong]

address@hidden wrote:
> I've been thinking about deprecating the Xlib backend, so that we can focus 
> more on Cairo.   I have discussed this with Fred and I would like to know what 
> everone else thinks about it.
>   
I think the less backends the better, as its less code to maintain. That 
said, the cairo backend should function correctly out of the box i.e. 
there should be any need to go fishing around for anything other than 
cairo and cairo-glitz on the Internet. I believe this is already the case.

Also, whilst we're on the topic of backends, is it worth trying to 
formalise and clean up the backend API? I don't know how other people 
feel about this, but to me it seems to be in want of some cleaning up 
e.g. set standards on the API instead of a mixture of old DPS commands 
and methods from various classes used to define the backend.

Regards
Chris