[cp-patches] Re: Proposal: Graphics2D rewrite branch

[Roman Kennke]

Am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2005, 13:20 +0000 schrieb theUser BL:
> >On this branch I'd like to do several things:
> >
> >1) Make Graphics2D the default
> >2) Remove Graphics
> 
> What do you mean with this?
> Does this mean, that Graphics is based on Graphics2D and so for plain AWT or 
> Swing programs Cairo is needed?
> 
> I don't hope so. I have the hope, that it goes in any time the other way 
> around, that Graphics2D is based on Graphics and created with the plain 
> AWT-Graphics.

This would indeed be cool to have, though I doubt this is what fitzsim
is going to do. As in other areas of Classpath it would be nice to have
a Java-only (easily portable) variant and a version that is backed by
some native lib.

What I don't understand, why do we need a new branch here? The
build-time and runtime-switches seem sufficient to me for now. And when
the impl is somewhat complete, these switches could be easily changed to
make Graphics2D the default.

/Roman

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