Hello ÏÚvind,

I'm shure it is a nice project, but my in-head spam deletion algorithm nearly send my finger to the delete button, because the header line seemed to contain so much noise. "a re spawned rcairo" seemed a bit like "a re you hav1ng your dose of v1agra" to me ;)

I'm happy to have stopped myself in time, because I think I could need this later.

best regards,

Brian

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 01:26:09 +0900
ÏÚvind KoléÔ <islewind / gmail.com> wrote:

> Announcing a re spawned rcairo
> =============================
> 
> rcairo[1] is a cairo[2] extension for ruby.
> 
> Cairo is a resolution and device independent vector graphics drawing
> library, which provides a postscript like drawing model. The release
> contains some simple tests, and some not so simple tests utilizing
> cairo through ruby (samples/canvas contains a small windowing system.
> 
> Features
> ========
> 
> - PNG writing
> - interactive applications using gtk+ and hardware acceleration.
> 
> Download
> ========
> 
> The extension is available as a tarball[3] or from cairo CVS[4] see
> the cairo cvs instructions[5] for information on how to get rcairo and
> some of its dependencies from cvs. See the README[6] for spartan build
> instructions, rcairo uses setup.rb and is hopefully easy to wrap up
> for gems and RPA.
> 
> To be done
> ==========
> 
> - Review API/conventions.
> - patterns (for gradients, and repeating images).
> - binding of cairo-svg for svg rendering support.
> - integration with sdl extension, for easy platform independent
>    (albeit not hardware accelerated) use.
> - PDF writing.
> - integration with pango extension, for unicode based text layout capabilities.
> - integration with the native support in gtk+
> - integration with other toolkits?
> - documentation
> 
> Feedback and patches are appreciated, especially regarding how cairo
> code should be used from ruby. Most of the fancy things can be added
> as syntactic sugar, but I am uncertain how to handle for instance
> enumerated values in a good way.
> 
> ]====----
> 
> [1] - http://cairographics.org/rcairo
> [2] - http://cairographics.org/ - "introduction - cairo"
> [3] - http://cairographics.org/~pippin/cairo/ruby/ - "download
> location for tarball"
> [4] - http://cvs.cairographics.org/rcairo/ - "cairo CVS - directory
> /cvs/cairo : rcairo"
> [5] - http://cairographics.org/download - "download - cairo"
> [6] - http://cvs.cairographics.org/rcairo/README?view=auto - "README for rcairo"
> 
> Attachments: a png file, and the ruby script used to generate it, just
> to give a taste of the API, more samples exist in the release. Mail
> with attachments bounced from list, placing the sample at [3] for now.
> 
> Happy drawing.
> 
> /ÏÚvind K./pippin
> 
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