Re: GTK+ plans for 3.22

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

You can write a software 3D renderer for cairo relatively easily in
~400 lines of C code, but I can't imagine any platform where you can
do fast 3D CPU rendering like that, and not have a GPU or be able to
run llvmpipe.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> wrote:
> On 26 April 2016 at 21:23, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > > Is this going to be opt in, or is GL going to be a hard dependency for
> > > GTK+ in the future (and what sort of time line are we talking here).
> >
> >
> > I have a Cairo based fallback renderer which does not do any 3D transform,
> > and there's always Mesa's software rasteriser if you feel so inclined.
> > Moving forward, if I'm allowed to be absolutely blunt, I'm not going to care
> > about non-GL or non-GLES targets because if I didn't care *that* much 7
> > years ago with Clutter, I'm not going to magically care more with the much,
> > much better stack we have these days. Having said that, if somebody wants to
> > submit patches to get fake 3D transforms with Cairo, I'm going to review
> > them gladly and quickly.
>
>
> Well if the toolkit doesn't do 3D then that cairo fallback is just fine I
> guess, and hopefully encourages someone to write some 3D math.   Just
> curious, with my "what if my platform is arse?" hat on. :)
>
> Ross
>
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  Jasper