>> I don't know gEDA proper, but PCB is very far from "lowest common >> denominator". Indeed that's a substantial part of why I'm building >> my own HID for it now: I neither have nor want GTK or Lesstif, so >> I'm building a plain X HID. > I presume you're ok with a partial requirement for M4 and some posix > shell, which is common on UNIX, but is a real pain for the win32 > port.
Well...I'm okay with that in a pragmatic sense, since I do have m4 and sh, but I'd consider those misfeatures (hard-to-fix misfeatures, maybe, but that's a separate issue). (Hmm, what does it need sh for? I need to have another look at the code....) > Partly, but partly not.. there is no reason someone like yourself > could not build cairo etc., if you wanted it. Well, and if I were willing to accept the prices, which quite likely would include an OS change and substantially beefier hardware at a minimum. > The main reason it wouldn't be viable would be if you were running on > hardware which isn't fast enough to be usable with that level of > graphics quality. Which is likely true in my case. I've done the rendering portion of the HID first, and it takes it nearly a minute to render tut1.pcb. It's likely I can speed that up some, but only some; I don't expect to ever get it below, say, five seconds, on this hardware. > Limited by hardware is what I meant by lowest common denominator. > Avoiding things like GTK by choice is just that, your choice, and > comes more under the m-r-c definition. So l-c-d is hardware and m-r-c is software? /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user