[Kicad-developers] wxDC GAL (Re: Grid in GAL canvas)

2016-01-15 Thread Torsten Hüter
Hi,   Are we even still going to have legacy pcbnew at the next release? What's the schedule for fully deprecating it? >> >>It will not be deprecated until we have one for one feature parity >>between the canvases and we can get by without it on all supported >>platforms. AFAIK, Tom is

Re: [Kicad-developers] wxDC GAL (Re: Grid in GAL canvas)

2016-01-15 Thread Chris Pavlina
It is a new(ish) decision. Cairo is an implementation that doesn't require hardware features, but it is uselessly slow - even on my main build machine which is quite snappy I'd completely refuse to work under it. We need a GAL backend that works with minimal hardware at a usable speed, and I

Re: [Kicad-developers] wxDC GAL (Re: Grid in GAL canvas)

2016-01-15 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 15.01.2016 20:44, "Torsten Hüter" wrote: > Hi, > > Are we even still going to have legacy pcbnew at the next release? > What's the schedule for fully deprecating it? >>> >>> It will not be deprecated until we have one for one feature parity >>> between the canvases and we can get by