Most popular libraries not in the HP

[Vo Minh Thu]

2010/7/17  <briand at aracnet.com>:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:47:03 -0300
> Felipe Lessa <felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:39 PM,  <briand at aracnet.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:56:23 +0200
>> > Axel Simon <Axel.Simon at in.tum.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> As far as I can see, there is a gradual overhead of C libraries
>> >> involved here. The Platform could ship the following subsets of
>> >> Gtk2Hs:
>> >>
>> >> cairo
>> >> cairo+glib+pango
>> >> cairo+glib+pango+gio
>> >> cairo+glib+pango+gio+gtk
>> >>
>> >> It's a question of how big the tar ball is and how much work it is
>> >> to bundle the C libraries with the Platform.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >
>> > That's why I voted for including just cairo.
>> >
>> > it's low overhead, high quality and gives your haskell install
>> > access to cross-platform graphics capability.
>>
>> How useful is cairo without pango?
>>
>
> Good question ! Fonts are still available even without pango, for
> example freetype fonts are supported. I think there are limitations
> but I can't remember exactly what.
>
> I've been down this road before, and I think that for basic use your
> good-to-go without pango as long as you don't want to run your text
> along a spiral path, or something like that.
>
> What I can't remember and what some of my example code doesn't reveal,
> is whether text rotation is possible.  As long as you can scale and
> rotate cairo withot pango would be ok, right ?

Hi,

Cairo is useful without pango: it is a vector drawing library (so this
alone is useful) and has basic support for text. (Pango can do
complicated stuff like right-to-left layout.)

As a vector library, anything can be scaled, rotated, clipped, ...
included text.

Cheers,
Thu