> From: Richard Melville <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 13:33:01 +0100 > > Does anybody have any further information about whether these two packages > are still actively maintained. I can't find any recent information about > either of them. The DirectFB link supplied in the book is to a list of > packages on fedoraproject.org. Apparently, DirectFB was dropped from > fedora after F19. The original DirectFB website, directfb.org, now appears > to be a website relating to sex.
DirectFB 'official' site seems to vary in url & visibility, & quite a bit over the past several years; ref e.g. websearch results sorted by date - phoronix seems to track what's what/not. > > Regarding SVGAlib, the website that the book links to looks exactly the > same as it did when I first downloaded the SVGAlib source code about twelve > years ago. Furthermore, all the links on that website point to an Israeli > website. Matan Ziv-Aviv became maintainer (http://arava.co.il/matan/svgalib/ : there, 1.9.25 is listed as most-recent release - tho' seemingly w/o obv date; but the 'patch' link indicates ca. 2006-07-14 . Ver 1.9.25 was in Slackware 13.37; and is still in Slackware Current. > > Perhaps both of these projects are now lost causes. Any advice would be > much appreciated. Both (or rather either) of these packages were useful in > providing the links browser with a graphical interface. Are there any 'links -g ...'still works fine in the aforenoted Slackware thru -Current. > alternatives, other than installing Xorg? Could SDL or SDL2 be used in > some way? I've looked on the Twibright website and there are no clues > there, other than a reference to SVGAlib. > akh -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
