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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Something stands out from this email that's worth mentioning, I think:

> Admitted, I don't have the newest hardware but I like to have not so fast 
> machines in order to be forced to develop fast software. ;-)

WE DON'T. It is unreasonable to expect the developers of KiCad to lock
themselves into developing things compatible with toasters because that
is what you prefer. All we're asking is that people have OpenGL. Not a
state-of-the-art GPU with a million CUDA cores and fifty terabytes of
video RAM. OpenGL. The only thing I can imagine that logically follows
from "you can't rely on OpenGL because I use old hardware" is "you can't
rely on having a MMU because I run KiCad on my Cortex-M-based toaster".

Seriously, every $50 used laptop on Craigslist has OpenGL support.

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 09:07:39AM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 February 2017 23:52:59 Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> >
> > I think ripping out Legacy soon after release would be a good
> > thing and will allow (some of us) to concentrate on improved
> > modularity (and maintainability) of the code. Encouraging
> > people to use GAL in V5 (while also discouraging them from
> > using Legacy) should hopefully get us the bug reports we need
> > to implement and polish up the GAL tools.
> >
> > Any comments?
> 
> I am relatively new to KiCad and I don't use it in production up to now 
> because I need to finish the interface to my other production environment 
> first, first of all I need to finish MSEkicadBOM.
> Before I decided to invest time into the KiCad project I tested it on 
> different Linux boxes. The only canvas which really worked was the legacy 
> canvas. The OpenGL canvas either had issues or did not work at all because of 
> various Linux driver problems. The performance of the legacy canvas was much 
> better than the performance of the OpenGL canvas on the machines I tested. 
> performance of Cairo canvas is even worse, almost unusable.
> Admitted, I don't have the newest hardware but I like to have not so fast 
> machines in order to be forced to develop fast software. ;-)
> 
> I recently had to revive a very old Orcad PCB-386 project on a stone age PC 
> with K6 processor and Windows 95 - what surprise, the performance and user 
> experience was on a par or even better than with current software on current 
> machines.
> 
> So please take into account that not all users have the newest machines, even 
> more users of free software who sometimes have a very low budget.
> 
> Martin
> 
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