On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > or does it have a future as a basic part of Linux?
>
> It has a future, but I assume it will rather be in the embedded systems
> market. It's used quite some there .... ;-).
>
> Yeah, I know - all that sounds pretty pessimistic. And I always feel pretty
> sad, when it comes to that topic. GGI is "my baby" more than any other open
> source project. And there is quite some blood, sweat and tears I and several
> other people put into it, so it really hurts to see it fall in decay. I'm
> pretty busy these days juggling two jobs, so I don't have so much time left
> to work on GGI. While this is bad for GGI, it helps a little to distract me
> from my "broken heart" about the project's state.
>
> But maybe some folks here would like to cheer me up a little ?
Maybe. :-)
> What GGI needs is a driving force. Look at the mailing list. It's quiet.
> Really quiet. The only postings are a few newbies seeking help or asking for
> features, and from time to time, me, Marcus or a few others that annouce
> a little new feature they coded up, because _they_ needed it.
I could do that on the _highlevel_ 3d-area.
I am active in that area with my 3DtoolKit project
(http://home.t-online.de/home/christoph_egger/3dtk/)
It is intendent for any kind of 3d-applications like games, CAD, 3D-Visualiser
etc.
lib3dtk is the basic lib, designed to be generic, lightweight and fast. The
project homepage says, it is also designed to be extensible, but I think it is
not before the next development-cycle (a plugin-interface is planned).
Because the 3d-engine behind of lib3dtk was a study of me under DOS, it doesn't
use all the efficiency of GGI yet.
I am planning to change that with a bottum-up rewrite in the next
development-cycle.
> Come one folks ! A project as big as GGI doesn't live by half a dozen
> semi-active coders. At least we need some _motivation_.
Well - the requirements of 3DtoolKit (see below) may give some motivations...
> Tell us what you need, tell us _that_ you need it, give us a hand
> implementing it, report bugs, and so on !
Well, I need GGI for OS indepence. And I need a working libgpf (Andreas?), a
working libggi3d (Jon?) and a working libxmi (Jon?) ...
CU,
Christoph Egger
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