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
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