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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2015-11-09 9:49 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>:
> On 08.11.2015 22:43, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
>> is there any roadmap/plan for how to go on with the three canvases in pcbnew after the stable release?
>
> Hi Bernhard,
>
> Yes, there is a plan. In short:
> - Port the remaining features of the "legacy" canvas such as component
> auto-placement or delete-track-while-routing to the GAL. We'll
> appreciate any help with assembling a list of features still missing in
> the GAL canvases.

There are some bugs that mention missing ports of some tools. Should
we start to tag bug reports with a new tag to distinguis/find them
easily? And then we can add new bugs with that tag to compose this
list of features still missing in the GAL canvases? Tag suggestion:
missing-tool   or others?

> - Improve the speed of the Cairo renderer so it's fast enough at least
> for an Arduino-sized board.
> - Drop the legacy canvas before the next stable release.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
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