GL and GLES support of cairo was removed since 1.17.8.

[cubicool]

GL and GLES support of cairo was removed since 1.17.8.

[cubicool]

Ugh. That's unfortunate. So, I guess it's blend2d or Skia in the future?

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[stuaxo]

Maybe ?

I was wondering about maintaining a branch with just the nogl patch reverted.

I got a little into the weeds around automatically cherry picking the commits from the master branch.

Of course it would still probably hit a point where it might be tricky to keep up.

It's a shame, as I think even if the performance isn't as optimal as an API built with modern GL in mind, there's good value in having the same API as the other back ends.

[stuaxo]

@rjopek also started various projects to try GL and cairo https://github.com/dev-harbour

As well as starting cairo-list github.com/cairo-list/cairo-list

There was a bit of a chicken + egg problem, where the GL backend wasn't turned on, as it wasn't ready - and so nobody used it.