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From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:28:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43bc6b835731c3c823fdd658cb28775e@plan9.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <560bf571b8195e2767f06ffc580f1fb6@vitanuova.com>

> i don't see why that couldn't drive draw directly.
> (i thought tinygl would do for my own purposes.)

tinygl is a mess that doesn't even look right...

MesaGL 5.0.1 has been sitting largely compiled in $home since June
15th..  It needs a driver for the software renderer and for glut,
which I believe is the harder of the two.

it also needs time, which nobody seems to have.

as fo rrewriting X apps for libdraw, it is relatively straightforward
to translate the simple X primitives into libdraw ones.  the
xscreensaver hacks are an example.

i think Geoff is right -- without somebody being able to work
full-time on those things nothing will get done.  the bubble burst and
the code that depended on developers' spare time is moving ahead
slower and slower -- see how long it took for FBSD 5.0 to come out.

Linux, on the other hand, has at least one full-time developer at
every major corporation working for it.  it's the one with the
momentum behind it.




  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-20  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-17 15:20 mirtchov
2003-10-17 16:34 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-17 17:08   ` Joel Salomon
2003-10-17 18:55     ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-17 19:05       ` matt
2003-10-17 20:17       ` ron minnich
2003-10-17 20:20         ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-17 20:26         ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-17 20:41           ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-17 20:54             ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-20 10:33             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-20 16:03               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-21  6:07                 ` Adrian Tritschler
2003-10-17 22:18           ` ron minnich
2003-10-20  1:38             ` okamoto
2003-10-17 21:36         ` Roman Shaposhnick
2003-10-20 10:33           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-21  0:10             ` [9fans] Re: your mail Roman Shaposhnick
2003-10-17 23:38       ` [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9 Geoff Collyer
2003-10-18  1:21         ` bs
2003-10-21 10:14           ` Martin C.Atkins
2003-10-18  8:27         ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-18  8:48           ` Richard Miller
2003-10-18 11:09           ` Geoff Collyer
2003-10-18 13:09             ` Tristan Seligmann
2003-10-19  8:25               ` C H Forsyth
2003-10-20  3:28                 ` mirtchov [this message]
2003-10-20  7:04                   ` Tristan Seligmann
2003-10-20 17:17                     ` mirtchov
2003-10-20 10:35                   ` Patrick R. Wade
2003-10-21  1:14                     ` david parsons
2003-10-19 16:27             ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-20 10:35             ` bs
2003-10-18 19:19           ` Richard Miller
2003-10-19 15:10             ` I RATTAN
2003-10-19 15:54               ` Richard Miller
2003-10-20 14:03             ` ron minnich
2003-10-20 17:03               ` jmk
2003-10-20 21:40         ` splite
2003-10-17 16:43 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-10-17 17:01   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-10-17 20:17     ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-20 10:33       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-17 15:36 steve-simon
2003-10-17 16:05 Richard C Bilson

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