Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 22:51:25 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? Message-ID: <199710301221.WAA00721@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "29 Oct 1997 21:29:48 MDT." <87sotklyhf.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
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> Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> writes: > > > If we really wanted we could port it however svgalib brings a support > > nightmare. What needs to happen is to tie svgalib to the Xfree86 development > > in such a way that that low level graphic functions from the XFree86 server > > become available as a library. > > What about GGI? SVGALib is on it's way out in the linux world anyway; > wouldn't it be better to get GGI into freebsd than worry about > SVGALib, which sucked to begin with? > > http://synergy.caltech.edu/~ggi/ Just reading up on this, I'm struck with the impression that these guys are furious that someone else invented X before they did, and did a better job of it to boot. There are all sorts of little giveaway signs that this is *not* a particuarly wonderful thing to be pursuing. I'd much rather put my (metaphorical) weight behind DGA. GGI is also *very* Linux-centric; porting it to FreeBSD would be a Lot Of Work. mike
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