Re: Proposal: Graphics2D rewrite branch

[David Gilbert]

Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose a new branch in the GNU Classpath CVS repository:
> graphics2d-rewrite.  Patches to this branch should be sent to
> address@hidden with a subject line prefix of [g2d rewrite].
> Commit policy is the same as GNU Classpath trunk.
>
> On this branch I'd like to do several things:
>
> 1) Make Graphics2D the default
> 2) Remove Graphics
> 3) Split Graphics2D according to
> http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathGraphicsImagesText
>
> Once these items are done and tested to work as well or better than the
> current Graphics/Graphics2D implementations, I'll merge the branch into
> trunk and continue development there.
>
> Any objections?
>
> Tom
>  
I'm looking forward to seeing this work proceed.  I can certainly help 
with testing, but I'm not likely to be much help with the actual 
implementation (I know so little about the non-Java bits of GNU Classpath).

Regarding 3) and BufferedImages, I think I recall Sven saying he was 
mistaken about the DataBuffer classes.  As far as I could tell (from 
writing some Mauve tests for them) they use real Java arrays.  And that 
makes using Cairo for BufferedImages more difficult, doesn't it?

Regards,

Dave