What Chris meant to say was this:
This problem can only happen with broken applications.
Cairo 1.8 was written in a way to cope with these breakages. But somewhere along the way we lost that feature, because we don't test broken applications (and I don't think we intend to).
What Chris meant to say was this:
This problem can only happen with broken applications.
Cairo 1.8 was written in a way to cope with these breakages. But somewhere along the way we lost that feature, because we don't test broken applications (and I don't think we intend to).