On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Johannes Zellner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What about renaming libxmi to libggixmi to prevent conflicts
> with GNU's libxmi ?
I thought of this too, but 'libggixmi' is a bit awkward to say,
don't you think? |->. Also, the practice of tacking 'ggi' onto
everything we port (i.e. GGIMesa) is perceived by some in the open source
community to have 'invasive' or 'intrusive' connotations. What we should
do is push for plug-in back end interfaces in every type of software that
needs it, (i.e. Mesa, SDL, Berlin, SVGALib, etc) and introduce the GGI
library system as just another type of 'target'. If GGI really is
superior, it will subsume the main targeting API system eventually,
replacing it with the GGI targeting system. In a sense, that's all GGI
_is_, is a fancy targeting system and polymorphic APIs to drive rendering
processes through target chains.
> -- maybe the same for svgalib ?
See above.
> -- I
> want to keep the original svgalib, but also install the ggi
> one for example.
Just rename your SVGAlib library .so names and rerun ldconfig, and
change the corresponding library names in the SVGAlib target. Much
easier. Then you could run the SVGAlib/GGI wrapper on top of the base
SVGAlib target, which cannot be done currently.
Jon
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