On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:23:12PM -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Christoph Egger wrote:
>
> > Could you fix the permissions, please? I get a "permission denied",
> > when I am looking to http://sourceforge.net/projects/ggi/
>
> the project doesn't exist just yet. It's probably still waiting for
> approval. (no idea why this is taking so long)
>
> > [22:17] <macarena> Personal goals: 1. Make a release. 2. Find a few
> > people doing maintenance stuff.
> > [22:18] <macarena> 3. Find a few people that want to seriously take
> > LibGGI2D and -3D or GGIMesa ...
> >
> > How about removing the current LibGGI2D from cvs and renaming libxmi
> > to libggi2d?
>
> this is a political decision. There are quite a number of 2d libraries,
> wasn't there even report of a libart based extension ? 'ggi2d' suggests
> that it is the one and only (official) 2d library for GGI. that might
> just not be true. (At least right now it is not true for ggi2d nor for
> ggi3d, and it wouldn't be true for any other 2d/3d library).
> To reiterate (and I think this is really important as a message to other
> people), I'd strongly suggest GGI to concentrate on the 'generic' part,
> and provide extension mechanisms to provide accelerated higher level
> libraries, without mandating any 'official' one. If nothing else, that
> will help keeping (or getting back, however you see it) GGI on scope.
>
> Regards, Stefan
I completly agree. When ggi makes its official release the tree should
be cleaned of everthing but gii and ggi. Everything else is half-finished
and not working entirely, Its very important that people see that ggi
isn't dead and I don't think releasing an official release that has more
broken libraries then working ones is a mistake. I think Stefan is right
when he says that GGI needs to concentrate on providing a generic interface
that supports hardware acceleration through KGI. Everything else should
not be an official part of GGI. Perhaps add a section to the website
that contains projects such as libggi2d, etc. but in order to look
professional we can't have a bunch of half-working libraries which would
just distract people from ggi itself.
John
