Support for streams
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- Lua
- Stars
- 491
- Forks
- 81
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Any plans to support creating Surfaces for writing output to streams, rather than hitting the file system?
cairo_image_surface_create_from_png_stream
cairo_pdf_surface_create_for_stream
cairo_ps_surface_create_for_stream
cairo_svg_surface_create_for_stream
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names Cairo stream constructors but no repository files or tests. Start by locating the existing Cairo surface bindings and comparing their file-based entry points with the linked Cairo APIs; done would require an agreed design and coverage for the supported stream-based surfaces.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100