Re: gEDA-user: gschem with cairo rendering

[Marvin Dickens <mpdickens@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 13:46 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:

> I have no problem with upgrading the version of GTK required.
> Requiring other libraries are also OK.  My suggestion is to look back 3
> or 4 years and see what was on common Linux distros back then and make
> that the minimum.  For common Linux distros, I'd suggest:
> 
> Fedora
> SuSE
> Debian
> Ubuntu
> 
> But remember that we also support other Unices:
> 
> FreeBSD (Dan)
> Mac OSX
> 
> So we'd need to see what dependencies exist on those platforms.

Fedora, SuSE, Debian and Ubuntu either use Gnome or KDE as the default
desktop. Both Gnome and KDE use freetype as the font server. Also,
blackbox and XFCE include the option of using Freetype as the font
server. By default, BSD platforms running any of the above gui desktops
runs Freetype. I'm pretty sure OSX uses or can use Freetype - Does
anybody know?

The following is an opinion and nothing more - Designing the
architecture of a program and then writing code for it like it's 1999 in
the year 2008 makes no sense whatsoever to me. Yes, I know the argument
about writing code for the lowest common denominator hardware. But, even
so, in my opinion, there is only so low you can go with hardware and
still justify what you are doing. I'm not coding for this project and
this statement is totally 100% self serving. With that said, I
personally think that integrating Cairo and freetype into gschem rock!
Thanks!


Regards

Marvin



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