This doesn't answer any of your questions, but Mark Roszko did some refactoring of gerbview that had some really nice changes. I believe he started the refactoring with the intention of switching gerbview over to GAL.
https://github.com/marekr/kicad-devel Jon Neal On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:38 PM Jon Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to get familiar with the GAL codebase, and it occurred to me that > it might be fun to play with porting GerbView to GAL. I know it is on the > 6.x roadmap, but it seemed to me that it would be mostly not dependent on > any other changes that I see on the roadmap or have seen people talking > about on the mailing list. > > - Is anyone currently working on this? > > - Does anyone think it would be a bad idea for me to start working on this > now? > > - If a GAL port is "feature-complete", is there any reason for the app to > retain the legacy graphics code, or can it just provide OpenGL and Cairo > backends? My impression is the only think keeping legacy canvas in pcbnew > is feature differences between legacy and GAL, but I wanted to check if > there are other reasons. > > - In my first hour of looking at the code for this, it seems like the GAL > code currently has some interdependence with pcbnew that needs to be > straightened out before using GAL in other applications. For example, > EDA_DRAW_PANEL_GAL depends on PCB_PAINTER, not a generic PAINTER. Is this > an open problem for anyone to tackle, or does anyone actively have plans to > refactor this? > > Best, > Jon > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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