On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 19:10 +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote: > Ineiev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I wonder if I may ask to keep GL code optional. most my machines have > > no GL-enabled hardware; and on the computer that has GL support, it is > > so weak that PCB+GL is quite unusable with any non-trivial board --- > > much worse than traditional PCB . sorry. > > I second that! I don't use single-user personal computers, instead I > run applications like PCB on a multiuser timesharing host (a machine in > a machine room with no humans present nearby) and direct the X11 DISPLAY > to a traditional 1980s-style Ethernet-attached X11 terminal, so I want a > PCB HID that works in the traditional 1980s X11 way. I would run the > original Xaw PCB if I could, but I need to be able to open current .pcb > files.
You are welcome to stick with whatever PCB version you like, and back-port any later changes you wish. Antagonistic reply aside.. I don't intend to remove / replace any of the old legacy drawing code. ;) This said.. as applications evolve, there becomes a point where you just need to run them on newer hardware (or stick with the older versions). For example.. there came a point where gschem started to perform worse on newer graphics stacks, simply because it was using 1980s style drawing methods - and had not caught up with the rest of the desktop. Best wishes, Peter C. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
