Re: gEDA-dev: Re: gEDA-cvs: CVS update: ChangeLog

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda-at-NOSPAMseul_dot_org>]

Hi Carlos,

[snip]
>I don't want to enter into a library war, but may I ask the same
>question?

	Absolutely.  Questions and discussions are always welcome.


>gdlib is another library in gaf's library dependency, only used to
>export the schematic to PNG. This task is currently done through
>libgdk-pixbuf, which can export to some other graphic formats (although
>this is not yet available in gschem).

	Yes, agreed.  However the output from gdlib vs pixbuf looks
different (line width was the first thing that I noticed).  If I have
some time, I'll post some png files and people can decided if the pixbuf
output is good enough.  Also there was a bug filed today on the png size
generated by pixbuf being slightly smaller.


[snip]
>So I guess we have two libraries to do the same task: one does it fine,
>and the other can't export pictures. If the reason to maintain gdlib is
>that the output is slightly different, why don't tweak the output of the
>other library to be the same?

	If it is possible to make pixbuf look like gdlib, then by
all means, I would be thrilled to drop gdlib, but I suspect the effort
to do this is far far more work.  Plus we have all this code (using gdlib)
that works remarkably well.  Your point that pixbuf can write pictures and
glib cannot is also noted (and a valid point).

	I'm not trying to be difficult (really), but I am trying to
preempt the bug that states: "png output has changed; how do I get the
old look back".  We can talk about this at the upcoming code sprint and
maybe decided this once and for all.

								-Ales



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