[haiku-development] Re: Text rendering

Stephan Assmus wrote:

Urias McCullough wrote (2007-06-14, 23:31:16 [+0200]):

On 6/14/07, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:

I think you should copy stuff and then change it. Otherwise we will have a
hard time upgrading AGG.

Speaking of which - whatever happened with the AGG switch to GPL? Will
there be a special licensing option for Haiku to use newer versions of
AGG without going GPL?
I did write to Maxim and even got a reply, but that is so long ago... IIRC, he didn't say we could have any special license conditions. But to be honest, I think it really doesn't matter very much. AGG is rock solid as is, and we would have a long path ahead of us if we ever wanted to make use of everything it offers right now. It is also very contained in the app_server, so that it would be easy to replace it, should that be necessary for any reason. I don't see any reason for that though.
The only reason I could think of would maybe be for performance. It seems like drawing a line to the screen jumps through rather a lot of hoops. I remember you doing some benchmarking vs R5 a long time ago and got the common cases to be as fast or faster than R5, but wasn't that by skipping out a large chunk of the AGG stuff? My memory is really rusty here... 

Simon


Best regards,
-Stephan

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