tile engine for 2.1

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 03 September 2009, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Thursday 03 September 2009, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am going to remove Bart's tile engine from svn since he indicated that
> > that was obsolete. But can we use Dmitry's tile engine as the default, at
> > least during the beta and rc period for 2.1, or is it not mature enough?
> > I'm afraid that if we don't it will never mature and will suffer the same
> > fate as Bart's engine.
> 
> I will leave the last word to Dmitry. But I fear we have too many issues on
> Krita right now, the current engine is very *reliable*. What I suggest is
>  that we enable Dmitry's engine (no matter what) as soon as 2.1 is
>  branched. Then we have six monthes to make it rock solid.
> 

Since we know that the old engine is reliable, I wanted to suggest using the 
new one using the beta's and rc's -- and if it turns out to have problems, 
switch back to the old one for the final release.

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