Hi Gifford,
> 1. libart is relatively unmaintained > The author has been busy with his thesis, and gnome developers seem to > be leaning toward cairo (at least Novell's mono team). the problem is that when I last looked at cairo it was not exactly attractive to be used as a replacement ... sort of 'not there yet' what seemed to be a more attractive option was http://antigrain.com/index.html this unfortunately is very c++ so I gave up on it ... but if someone wants to contribute C bindings this looks VERY cool. > 2. other packages may offer more features > For some, it may be desirable to sacrifice some performance in order > to gain more capability. I do not know how the performance of > ImageMagick, for example, compares with libart, but ImageMagick offers > many more output formats. the question is what features you are looking for ... > 3. some platforms may offer analogous features natively > It may be a stretch to call GDI+ "native" to Windows, but I can > imagine a GDI+ version of rrdtool with no freetype, libart, libpng, or > zlib dependencies. I realy would like the default graphing backend to be platform independant .. if someone comes up with GDI+ as an extra 'driver' this is fine ... > 4. some people may want a feature-limited rrdtool > I might want an rrdtool that only emitted SVG, for use with either an > external rasterizer or an SVG-enable Firefox. this would be very simple to achieve. As was pointed out before there is no real libart integration before 'render_png' this could be quite easily be broken out if there was an issue with linking against libart ... > I have been reviewing rrdtool, libart, cairo, and GDI+ and have some > specific suggestions to make, if they would be useful. sure by all means ... as soon as 1.2.x slows in bug pace I will open 1.3.x and new things can be tried ... cheers tobi > > -- > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-developers > WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi > -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker @ ISG.EE, ETL F24.2, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / System Manager, Time Lord, Coder, Designer, Coach /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker +41(0)44-632-5286 -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-developers WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
