From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:57:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5061C63F.4090902@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-1k9xfG_t64z8ZNufVRBg4yG5K14LP_do=Ou2hY5G+mw@mail.gmail.com>
Il 25/09/2012 11:31, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> > Even though pixman is used by core linux packages it is still a young
>> > project. On older distros (RHEL-5 for example) it isn't included and
>> > must be compiled manually.
> For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument
> against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of the compute
> cluster machines here are RHEL5 and it would be pretty awkward to
> deal with manually building a dependent library.)
>
> So they're a new library -- how good are they at API/ABI stability?
Very.
pixman is not that young actually (2003), but it was built into both
cairo and Xorg until ~2007. Unfortunately, the pixman code that is in
cairo prefixes all names with "_cairo_" (so they look like
"_cairo_pixman_image_create") and there is no public header file. But I
don't see any reason why pixman couldn't be included in EPEL.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-25 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-25 8:47 [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops Gerd Hoffmann
2012-09-25 9:31 ` Peter Maydell
2012-09-25 10:37 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-09-25 10:48 ` Peter Maydell
2012-09-25 11:00 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-09-25 21:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-09-25 14:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-25 14:57 ` Peter Maydell
2012-09-25 14:57 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-09-25 15:31 ` Søren Sandmann
2012-09-25 15:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-09-25 16:02 ` Søren Sandmann
2012-09-25 16:20 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-09-25 17:08 ` Søren Sandmann
2012-09-26 5:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-09-25 10:32 ` Stefano Stabellini
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