Ah OK. If there are ways of providing alternative code that compiles with cairo 1.8, that would fix support for Ubuntu 10.04. Given that development is moving towards GTK+ 3 (and friends) it will become increasingly difficult to provide alternatives for old library support. I guess the question is "when" rather than "if" we will drop support for old OS versions.
Ah OK. If there are ways of providing alternative code that compiles with cairo 1.8, that would fix support for Ubuntu 10.04. Given that development is moving towards GTK+ 3 (and friends) it will become increasingly difficult to provide alternatives for old library support. I guess the question is "when" rather than "if" we will drop support for old OS versions.