On 09.12.2016 17:40, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Pixman is a dependency for Cairo on msys2 (at least it's according to > whoever wrote the PKGBUILD) so it should be fine on windows. As always > the problem child may be osx. You should check with on of the osx devs > to make sure pixman is readily available on osx. Please keep in mind, > you own any dependencies you add. Other than that, I'm fine with adding > this dependency if it solves the speed issues with cairo. > Hi Wayne,
Pixman always goes together with Cairo, as it's responsible for low-level raster operations in Cairo. I don't think we should worry about Pixman being additional dependency on any OS. Cheers, Tom > On 12/9/2016 11:32 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Tom has just finished working on cairo backend optimizations [1]. We >> still have a few tricks up our sleeves, so if the current performance is >> still not high enough to make cairo the offical SW renderer, we can >> continue optimizations. >> >> It is not merged yet, as the most time consuming part is now implemented >> using pixman, which is one od cairo dependencies. >> Wayne, are you ok with making pixman an explicit KiCad dependency? I do >> not think it should be a problem, but I prefer to be safe than sorry. >> >> Tom's branch also contains refactoring of VIEW/VIEW_ITEM classes >> (decoupling EDA_ITEM from VIEW) and a small bonus feature called >> "flipped view". >> >> Regards, >> Orson >> >> 1. https://code.launchpad.net/~orsonmmz/kicad/+git/kicad/+ref/cairo_boost >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
