Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Wed Mar 19 11:36:39 EDT 2014, a@9srv.net wrote:

> > we don't drive any touch hardware, so in the interest of
> > success, i would not be interested in a gsoc project that
> > required as step 0: identify, purchase and write driver for
> > enabling hardware.
>
> If someone were interested in doing this in the short term,
> the best option is likely tying it to reviving the iOS drawterm
> port. One could also do some interesting UI experiments
> with drawterm from laptops with multitouch devices; that
> would be less ambitious, but you'd get past step 0 quicker.

given that that port was done many releases of ios ago, it
is likly that a different step 0 would be required: bring
the ios drawterm port back to life.

- erik