I think it's bad PR for the General Graphics Interface to split
because it isn't general enough to handle win32 :). Besides, EMACS
runs on win32 and didn't have to split, and if EMACS can do it, GGI
can do it too!
Marcus Sundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > As alot of you probably know, I've been working on a Win32 port of GGI.
> > A good portion is done, and I have been successful in getting XGGI to
> > run on Win95/98/NT.
> >
> > The current GGI sources are very Linux oriented, as they should be.
>
> Huh? They aren't and they shouldn't. They aren't even UNIX oriented.
> Some targets and inputlibs contain code which are specific to the
> subsystems they are intended to drive, but that's natural.
>
> > However, quite a bit of the source code is worthless for Win32
> > platforms.
>
> And it is not compiled on win32 either, so there is no problem.
>
> > There are also places where there are just plain
> > incompatibilities. select() for unix and win32 are very different,
>
> And I've already said that LibGII will be adapted for win32 as soon
> as someone with skills in win32 input handling tells us what we
> should use instead, or better still sends patches that implements
> it.
>
> > win32 has no fork,
>
> fork() is not used for anything important.
>
> > I'd like to propose the following.... A seperate project, WinGGI, and
> > source tree based on the current GGI tree, devoted towards Win32
> > platforms. The basic libggi/ libgii api would stay the same.
>
> We really want win32 support and have wanted so for a long time,
> and well-written code which helps us achieve this will be included
> as soon as we receive it. We welcome any new developers, win32
> hackers and others who want to help improve GGI code. There is
> absolutely no reason to have a separate source tree for win32.
>
> > I would like to see some additions such as Joystick and sound support.
>
> There already is joystick support, and writing a joystick inputlib
> for win32 shouldn't be harder than any other inputlib.
> As for sound it is out of the scope of this project, but Wouter's
> LibGSI is already there if you want a nice sound library.
>
> //Marcus
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