Geom class project idea - geom_cow

[Christian Laursen]

Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> writes:

> Christian Laursen wrote:
>> I have an idea for a geom class that I think could be useful in a number
>> of scenarios.
>> 
>> The basic idea is that it takes two existing providers and uses the first
>> one as a starting point and the other one to keep changes to the first
>> one using copy-on-write.
>
> It's been discussed, and it's even on my tentative todo list (though I
> can't even say when I'll have the time&resources to start...). It's even
> done by my "old" gjournal project, but that aspect of it is undertested
> and probably buggy.

I was not aware of that. I guess I'll have to take a look at Pawels gjournal
and see if the functionality is still there.

-- 
Christian Laursen