Clarify relation with Microsoft.Maui.Graphics nuget package

[piju3]

It seems many people who are looking to use the Microsoft.Maui.Graphics package end up on this page (myself included). Given that it's in the dotnet namespace with a matching name, and that it has a link back to the NuGet package, people naturally assume that this is the repository it's built from, which causes confusion.

From what I understand, the source for the current package can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/maui/tree/main/src/Graphics/src/Graphics and the documentation at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/user-interface/graphics/. It would be good if the description explicitly mentioned this and the nuget badge was removed.

[swharden]

Microsoft.Maui.Graphics package end up on this page ... Given that it's in the dotnet namespace with a matching name, and that it has a link back to the NuGet package, people naturally assume that this is the repository it's built from, which causes confusion.

Hi @piju3, thank you for pointing this out! I did not realize this before today, and I now am confused too. These two repositories appear to contain much of the same code:

• https://github.com/dotnet/maui/tree/main/src/Graphics/src/Graphics
• https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics/tree/main/src/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics

Interestingly, the blame history has shared commit messages:

• https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics/blame/main/src/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Win2D.WinUI.Desktop/W2DImageLoadingService.cs
• https://github.com/dotnet/maui/blame/main/src/Graphics/src/Graphics.Win2D/W2DImageLoadingService.cs

The same commits appear in both repos with different hashes:

• 35d6380
• dotnet/maui@1802d17

with identical timestamps:

• https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics/commit/35d6380513fabf9e36f1fcc5d3db3a0bce56bbd9.patch
• https://github.com/dotnet/maui/commit/1802d17006d5fd138a04726ae26e11212f6522c0.patch

However, changes over in the dotnet/maui repo are not reflected in this repo 💀

• dotnet/maui@f0b17ad
• https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics/blame/main/src/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics/PathBuilder.cs

Clarification on how these two repositories relate to each other (and especially which repository users should submit issues and PRs to) would be very helpful!

PS: I registered https://maui.graphics and pointed it here because I was tired of my titlebar searches 404ing because .graphics is a top level domain. Clarification on this topic could help me update links on that page to send people to the correct repository.

[swharden]

HI @piju3, I think this is the answer: #496 (comment)

in Jan mattleibow said this repo has moved to https://github.com/dotnet/maui

I agree the readme, contributing.md, and nuget package URLs should be updated.

The authors should also consider disabling issues and PRs in this repository.