Julien Tayon wrote:
I've snipped most of your post as I will just give a general status
report of XGGI at the end.
> The spririt of XGGI as a modular, well layered architecture is also
> better (on the coder point of view) than the all in one approach of XF
> 4.0.
Umm, XGGI is as monolithic as it gets, while XF4.0 on the other hand
is almost as modular as LibGGI (which XGGI is using ofcourse, but
_XGGI_ isn't at all modular).
> 3) Xinerama belongs to XF 4.0 => it will be late anyway. And perhaps, we
> may forget Xinerama until it has proven to work ?
Xinerama is a standard X11R6.4 extension which XFree is working on
improving.
> Annexe:
> Here are two extracts from the XF official home page:
> >><<
> 1. What is XFree86 3.9.16?
>
> XFree86 3.9.16 is a ``work in progress'' snapshot of the XFree86 4.0
> development code. It is one of in a series of snapshot releases leading
> up the the 4.0
> release. The plan is to release a new snapshot every four to six weeks
> ...
> >>
> They also precise, the current release is not for users ...
Well, XFree 3.9.16 is rock-solid here running multihead with a Matrox
Millennium II and a G400...
> the first
> release of XF 4.0 was expected in july the 20th ...
IIRC it was. Or at least very close to that date.
Ok, the general status of XGGI as far as I'm concerned is that I
intend to make one maintainance release of the current code-base
and then start investigating the possibilities of making a LibGGI
driver for XFree 4.0.
I'm flattered that you think so high of XGGI, but unfortunately
most of it isn't true. As a dumb framebuffer X-server XGGI is
a quite clean add-on to X11R6.3, but when acceleration was added
it became an ugly hack. Adding more advanced acceleration to the
current code-base is impossible without major work and without
making the code even more nasty.
If we want any kind of acceleration for XGGI, XFree 4.0 is the
code-base we should use. The alternative is to write an acceleration
system for X11R6.4 from scratch, which is hardly a realistic
alternative...
So unless someone does some revolutionary hacking on XGGI, XF4.0 is
where it's headed.
//Marcus
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