Given the recent thread on making Legacy a build option and after a number of conversations with people familiar with the source code, it seems that a number of developers believe that the Legacy canvas code is really holding back a lot of improvements to the code structure. I would suggest that in the V5 release, each time pcbnew is started it should always default to GAL (or Cairo if someone is using a laptop from 2001). On top of that, each time a user decides to switch to the Legacy canvas I would throw up a nag screen to tell the user that the canvas they are selecting has been deprecated and will be removed in the next release and that the user should use the GAL canvas instead and report any missing or buggy tools via the bugtracker.
I think ripping out Legacy soon after release would be a good thing and will allow (some of us) to concentrate on improved modularity (and maintainability) of the code. Encouraging people to use GAL in V5 (while also discouraging them from using Legacy) should hopefully get us the bug reports we need to implement and polish up the GAL tools. Any comments? - Cirilo _______________________________________________ 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
