Re: gEDA-user: OpenGL branch

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:35 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:10:11 +0000
> Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 11:49 -0500, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote:
> > > What is required to run the OpenGL port?
> > 
> > Just a working (and not ancient) OpenGL driver. If glxgears runs, it
> > will "probably" run.
> > 
> > git clone -b pcb+gl git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git
> > 
> > More likely to have bugs, but faster:
> > 
> > git clone -b pcb+gl_experimental git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git
> 
> How does the OpenGL branch track with mainline git HEAD?  Do you
> frequently merge from mainline and keep up to date with bug fixes, etc.?

I rebase it fairly regularly. (Rebase, not merge - so you will have to
be careful when re-fetching it)

> I assume if I use the GL branch pcb, any files I work on will still be
> fully compatible with mainline pcb, right? (i.e., no file format
> changes, only UI changes)

Not for the pcb+gl and pcb+gl_experimental branches.

Anything with "pours" in the branch name is not compatible. Nice
features there, but nothing ready to land.

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Peter Clifton

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