Can you write it in such a way that the check is only removed on cairo <
1.8? My employer is still standardized on RHEL4, for example, which has
cairo 1.2.
Mike
Michiel de Hoon wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> The draw_path method in backend_cairo.py starts with a check for the number
> of vertices in the path, and raises an error if the path contains more than
> 18980 vertices:
>
> def draw_path(self, gc, path, transform, rgbFace=None):
> if len(path.vertices) > 18980:
> raise ValueError("The Cairo backend can not draw paths longer
> than 18980 points.")
>
> This was needed in the past when cairo version 1.4.10 / pycairo version 1.4.0
> would segfault:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=487E2E78.1050501%40stsci.edu
>
> However, we're now at cairo, pycairo version 1.8.8, and I haven't seen any
> segfaults after removing this check.
>
> Does anybody object if I remove this check from the code?
>
> --Michiel.
>
>
>
>
>
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