- + better quality output (important for printing exercises!)
- Please remember that PyCairo is a graphics library. We still have to write the music rendering code. Currently, the limits are in our code in
mpd/ and not in the pygtk api.
- + portable between platforms
- + Carl Worth and Owen Taylor are really accessible on irc.freenode.net, #cairo.
- - early, still a bit uncertain about the future:
- will gtk become cairo-based on its own without Solfege having to change much?
<looksaus> is a windows port of pycairo being planned?
<looksaus> or is it already there, maybe?
<looksaus> (I hope I'm not asking too annoying questions here)
<cworth> looksaus: I'm not aware of one. I don't think so. And not at all. (respectively)
<looksaus> cworth, thx
<cworth> looksaus: That said, I wouldn't think it would be too hard,
(assuming one already has the ability to create win32 windows in python,
which I know nothing about).
<looksaus> cworth, just exploring the possibilities a bit for the future
of GNU Solfege, a pygtk music education app that needs quite advanced
graphics for music notation rendering
<looksaus> thx for your replies
<otaylor> looksaus: pycairo + pygtk shouldn't be hard to get going on windows
<otaylor> looksaus: Except for build issue (and that is an except...)
<cworth> looksaus: Ah, cool. It's been nice to see recent improvements in
free software for music notation. But, from what I've seen, there's an almost
universal need for higher quality display rendering.
