Re: gnustep on windows

[Fred Kiefer]

Paul Fox wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, why do you want to use cairo on Windows and not the
>> native window interface (or one based on GDI+)?
> 
> Why Cairo? Mainly because it gives me a fairly nice graphics library
> that's cross-platform. For fancy graphics, Cairo gives a consistent
> appearance across platforms, allows me to ignore platform when coding
> for the most part, and is much nicer looking than GDI. I'm really still
> exploring what's possible here, and it appears that Cairo is the most
> potentially capable backend.

When programming with GNUstep you will be working against the GNUstep
drawing API, not cairo or GDI. It is true that the implementation of
this API for cairo is more complete, but even that may be changed.