By the way ... >> The "Jules" cairo pisces replacement obviously isn't all that useful >> without the backend .. is it likely the required cairo modifications >> would ever make it into linux distros ? If not I'm not sure its >> worth putting the java glue code into openjdk.
Wouldn't it be possible to put the backend itself into OpenJDK? There's already a quite a lot of 3rd party code in OpenJDK, would one more hurt that much? Even for MaskBlit's, it usually does a lot better than pisces. (with some exceptions that can be fixed for sure) Thanks, Clemens
