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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is a new(ish) decision. Cairo is an implementation that doesn't 
require hardware features, but it is uselessly slow - even on my main 
build machine which is quite snappy I'd completely refuse to work under 
it. We need a GAL backend that works with minimal hardware at a usable 
speed, and I guess wxDC is supposed to be that.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 08:44:35PM +0100, "Torsten Hüter" wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> >>>> Are we even still going to have legacy pcbnew at the next release?
> >>>> What's the schedule for fully deprecating it?
> >>
> >>It will not be deprecated until we have one for one feature parity
> >>between the canvases and we can get by without it on all supported
> >>platforms. AFAIK, Tom is working on a wxDC gal implementation which
> >>should eliminate the second part. If this happens before the next
> >>release, then there is no reason to continue to support the legacy canvas.
>  
> Is this a new decision? I thought that wxDC is not that much interesting, because it uses deprecated functions and is problematic on some platforms.
> 
> I did an wxDC implementation, this was my last work on the GAL and then Orson continued it and he should know this implementation.
> 
> You can find the code here:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/kicad-gal/files/head:/gal/wxdc/
> 
> Funny that this is almost 4 years old :)
> 
> That could be helpful for Tom.
> 
> Thanks,
> Torsten
> 
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