On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:53, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:29:42PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > While you try to support this, the schools are busy upgrading. > > Heh, it's already been 2.5 years since I started Tux Paint, and many > still have not. It's a pretty dire situation in some places. It cuts down on theft. > > Nobody wants to be stuck with a dead OS. If a school is > > extremely poor, they can always put Debian on their old Macs. > > Not always. Depends on the Mac. And no reason to make all of their > computers incompatible with the software they had already purchased. For this, there is the Mac-on-Linux project. > > Another idea is to allow running all the code to completion, > > just as is done now. In that case, pthreads can be used. > > I guess I need to brush up on threading. :^) The font stuff is pretty simple. Stamps will be worse, but not too complicated I expect. For fonts, I simply don't touch any shared data except a volatile long. That may need some work on Alpha boxes, which have very loose memory ordering rules. _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list Tuxpaint-dev@tux4kids.net http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
