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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, replied from wrong account before.

pixman is fine on OSX.

Adam Wolf

On Dec 9, 2016 11:08 AM, "Tomasz Wlostowski" <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 09.12.2016 17:40, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > Pixman is a dependency for Cairo on msys2 (at least it's according to
> > whoever wrote the PKGBUILD) so it should be fine on windows.  As always
> > the problem child may be osx.  You should check with on of the osx devs
> > to make sure pixman is readily available on osx.  Please keep in mind,
> > you own any dependencies you add.  Other than that, I'm fine with adding
> > this dependency if it solves the speed issues with cairo.
> >
> Hi Wayne,
>
> Pixman always goes together with Cairo, as it's responsible for
> low-level raster operations in Cairo. I don't think we should worry
> about Pixman being additional dependency on any OS.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
> > On 12/9/2016 11:32 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Tom has just finished working on cairo backend optimizations [1]. We
> >> still have a few tricks up our sleeves, so if the current performance is
> >> still not high enough to make cairo the offical SW renderer, we can
> >> continue optimizations.
> >>
> >> It is not merged yet, as the most time consuming part is now implemented
> >> using pixman, which is one od cairo dependencies.
> >> Wayne, are you ok with making pixman an explicit KiCad dependency? I do
> >> not think it should be a problem, but I prefer to be safe than sorry.
> >>
> >> Tom's branch also contains refactoring of VIEW/VIEW_ITEM classes
> >> (decoupling EDA_ITEM from VIEW) and a small bonus feature called
> >> "flipped view".
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Orson
> >>
> >> 1. https://code.launchpad.net/~orsonmmz/kicad/+git/kicad/+
> ref/cairo_boost
> >>
> >>
> >>
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