Re: Security advisory: gtk2-x11

["Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hmm, this is the first time I hear about glitz and cairo.  Is it used
> instead of X11?

Not exactly.  cairo[1] is a cross-platform 2D graphics rendering engine 
with support for multiple backends.  glitz is a wrapper for the various 
types of OpenGL APIs.

[1] http://cairographics.org/introduction

cairo is now used by GNOME, and particularly pango and gtk+, instead of 
libart_lgpl2 and libgnomecanvas2, which are being deprecated (but need 
to stay for compatibility), and to a certain degree, gdk-pixbuf.

Anyway, are you ready to consider bumping glib/gtk+ to 2.8?  Let me 
know, and I'll ITP glitz and cairo.


Yaakov