Re: output-attributes on Cairo backend

[Paolo Prete]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 1:52 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:

>
>
> Thanks for reminding me, this is something that I wanted to
> share on this list but I forgot. We have a bit of a problem here,
> because Cairo doesn't support setting arbitrary attributes in SVG
> output right now. This corresponds to issue #281 in the Cairo
> bug tracker.
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/281
>
So, in order to make this supported, we first have to get
> this supported in Cairo.
>
>
Thanks for this information. The issue was created 12 years ago (!) and it
received no feedback. Therefore I presume it won't be fixed because there's
no interest in fixing it.
But what is your plan about the SVG output? I mean:
1) Is your plan to drop the SVG backend *only if/when* output-attributes
can be added to the Cairo backend?
2) Is your plan to eliminate the SVG backend or would you like to simply
make it non-default ?

Best,
P