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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:48:17 +0000
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On Nov 12 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:

>  Oh NEAT.  (unfortunately this sort of high-end stuff will make PCB
>even more Linux-only, but we crossed that line a couple of years ago)
>
>  This is awesome stuff.  We really need a new release!

Give us a little time to get my remaining code branches cleaned up and 
merged, and perhaps then would be a good time.

Regarding the Linux-only stuff, are you thinking this because you know of 
other Unix systems which don't support modern GL (perhaps the shader 
stuff), or were you thinking about Windows?

It is true that I've not tested porting the GL rendering to Windows, but in 
theory at least - it should be possible to make it work, at least until we 
leave GTK 2.0 behind. (The GtkGlExt widget I'm using should work under 
Windows).

Regarding the future.. GtkGlExt doesn't work with GTK 3.0 and beyond, and 
the upstream project is dead. All (forked) replacements I've seen so far do 
not appear to be as portable to MacOS-X and Windows, or at least - their 
authors are only testing under Linux at the moment. Perhaps we don't care, 
as I don't see us porting to GTK 3.0 any time soon.

Best regards,

Peter Clifton