[scribus-dev] Fwd: Re: [cairo] A theme (and challenge) for 1.8.2: Eliminating XFAILs!

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Tue Oct 21 13:29:57 CEST 2008


> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: Re: [scribus-dev] Fwd: Re: [cairo] A theme (and challenge) for
1.8.2: Eliminating XFAILs!
> From: Franz Schmid <Franz.Schmid at altmuehlnet.de>
> To: "Scribus Development Mailing List" <scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net>
> Date: 21-10-2008 12:02
> 
> 
> Craig Bradney schrieb:
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> Subject: Re: [cairo] A theme (and challenge) for 1.8.2: Eliminating
> > XFAILs!
> >> From: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
> >> To: "Chris Wilson" <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> >> CC: "Craig Bradney" <cbradney at zip.com.au>,cairo at cairographics.org
> >> Date: 21-10-2008 0:37
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 23:31 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 00:16 +0200, Craig Bradney wrote:
> >>>> Was there ever a fix put in for the cairo bug shown in Scribus where
> >>>> faint lines were drawn on the canvas?
> >>>> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=6971
> >>> Yes, we managed to fix this in time for the 1.8 release - in fact, it
> >>> was the last blocking bug. I believe commit
> >>> 444d44acde4ac73641c789c19ec7a3199211b594 addresses the issue.
> >> Yes, that should be fixed in 1.8.0 already.
> >>
> >> I definitely dropped the ball in failing to mention that fix in the
> >> release notes. We know that the scribus developers have been wanting to
> >> see a fix for that for a long time!
> >>
> >> We hope this helps make cairo users even happier,
> >>
> >> -Carl
> > 
> > Franz (or others), can you please test without the current workaround
> Have already tested it and its fixed :-)
> 
> Bug #6971 is now resolved in our Bugtracker.
>

Thanks Franz, would you mind removing your work around, or perhaps only
allow it for cairo <1.8.0?

thanks
Craig





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