Subject: Cairo Remove old backends
From: Brian Inglis <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:43:07 -0700
List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports <cygwin.cygwin.com>

Are any of these required by any graphics or desktop packages?

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/285

Qt: depends on Qt 4, EOL in 2015
Cogl: depends on Cogl, unmaintained since 2016
OpenVG
BeOS: unsupported by Meson
OS/2: unsupported by Meson, last known built for Cairo 1.12 (2006)
DirectFB
DRM: science experiment, broken for at least 10 years

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