On 29 Aug 2000, Tijs van Bakel wrote:
> What I'd like to see is that a tarball with the current lib/libggi and
> lib/libgii would be released as a _stable_ release. These two
> libraries don't need any fixes to be released; they've been stable for
> ages.
I agree. I don't recall the last time I experienced any
significant GGI library bugs. There are some strange console-related
input issues, but that's not a code bug but a documentation gap. I think
that this may have been fixed by all the documentation commits recently.
> The ggi-devel tarball is too big for most people. A new stable
> release would attract a lot of new users. Being a trained libggi user
> ;), I'd love to help newbies out.
We should also produce some nice shiny .rpms and either dig up
Aaron to make us some .debs or find another Debian project member to take
ownership of GGI packaging.
> Please whip up a TODO list for things you'd like to see happening with
> ggi, and we'll all help :) If someone would introduce me a little into
> writing libggi extensions, I could write zoom and rotation targets, if
> anyone is interested in that.
Ask questions and you will recieve answers.
> On a sidenote, I'd like to see someone think out a way to combine
> sound and graphics
Berlin is looking into this. Mixed synch/asynch rendering graphs
which can cut into hardware acceleration at arbitrary points are not at
all trivial to design properly |->. I suspect that the best way to
implement something like this is to first design separate, asynchronous
graphics and audio rendering 'fabrics' and then integrate and sychronize
then with a separate control API. Common control elements (time synching,
blocking checkpoints, FIFO management, etc) will naturally tend to migrate
from the more notionally-specific lower layers to more abstract higher
management layers.
> -- is this part of the console system formerly
> known as EvStacks? (Whatever happened to that?)
Mostly dead, unfortunately. Some of the core concepts are present
in Vojtech Pavlik's 'evdev' abstract event and input device layer for the
Linux kernel.
Jon
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