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diff --git a/ROADMAP b/ROADMAP new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4a47c496 --- /dev/null +++ b/ROADMAP @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +Here are some quick notes as far as a cairo roadmap goes. + +See also the TODO file for a different view, (less organized, but +often in more detail, particularly for the API Shakeup work in +progress). + +cairo 1.0 release requirements +============================== + +Implementation work +------------------- + I1. Fix clipping to be sane + Dificulty: moderate + Status: cworth has started looking at this + + I2. Real PostScript/PDF fallbacks (cairo_meta_surface_t) + Difficulty: hard + Status: otaylor has drafted a plan or two on the list + +API Issues (more detail in TODO file) +------------------------------------- + +✓A1. Add cairo_paint + Difficulty: moderate or moderate to minor + Dependencies: much easier after [I1]. needs some cleanups from [A4] + Status: Done + +✓A2. Add cairo_mask + Difficulty: moderate + Status: Done + + A3. Add cairo_begin/end/get_group + Difficulty: easy to hard (depending on how sophisticated an + implementation is acceptable, and whether the + cairo_meta_surface_t mentioned in [I2] is done) + Status: cworth sent API proposal to the list + (still some unresolved API issues) + +✓A4. Make set_source consistent + Difficulty: easy + Dependencies: needs [A2,A3] to avoid losing functionality, + (but we may just live with that as we've now got + a circular dependency) + Status: Done. + +✓A5. Add cairo_clip/fill/stroke_preserve + Difficulty: easy + Status: Done. + +✓A6. Just eliminate a bunch of functions: + + ✓ cairo_set_target_* + ✓ cairo_copy + ✓ cairo_surface_set_repeat/matrix/filter + ✓ cairo_show_surface + + Difficulty: trivial + Dependencies: eliminating cairo_show_surface depends on [A1] + Status: Done. + + A7. cairo_surface_mark_dirty + Difficulty: trivial to add API, moderate to actually optimize + based on it + Status: cworth has sent API proposal to list + + A8. cairo_format_t: + Difficulty: moderate. It's just going through and examining + each use of cairo_format_t, but there are a lot + of them. + Status: not started, there is a rough plan in TODO + +Performance work +---------------- +✓P1. Make pixel-aligned rectangle compositing fast + Difficulty: moderate to easy + Status: Done. + + P2. Generate better trapezoids to go easier on the rasterizer + Difficulty: moderate to hard + Status: cworth drafted a plan to the list |