Re: [Gramps-devel] Support needed: Gramps 4.0 AIO for Win

[John R. <jr...@ce...>]

On Jul 14, 2013, at 6:48 PM, Paul Franklin <pf....@gm...> wrote:

> On 7/14/13, John Ralls <jr...@ce...> wrote:
>> But I don't think we actually need the gtk part of graphviz ...
> 
> That's interesting.
> 
> Since GraphViz is (I think) designed to be built using
> whatever backends the user specifies, perhaps the GTK
> stuff is only there to support the "GTK canvas" output
> format: http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/output.html ?
> That would be good news, indeed!

Cairo canvas, IIRC. It's the cross platform graphics underneath Gtk.
But I haven't looked at their code in a while, so I could easily be mis-remembering.
I do know that I build the OSX Gramps without Gtk2 in the stack and it still
works OK.

Regards,
John Ralls