On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Jos Hulzink wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Brian S. Julin wrote:
>
> > What's in this release:
> >
> > 1) Docs, lots of them, and you can even read them in HTML at:
> > http://mojo.calyx.net/~bri/projects/GGI/galloc/
>
> Cool.. here goes my rest tonight :)
>
> > 2) An API we felt was stable enough to write docs for. Really.
> > We're not going to have to change it anymore. Honest. :-)
>
> Honest like in "yeah right ?" :)
>
> > 3) Christoph is using the X target to demonstrate what a full blown
> > target will look like -- some of it even works, too! The X target
> > is being used to probe the full extent that a target can go to,
> > so there may be a few things in there that will be moved to helper
> > libraries later.
>
> Hmmm... my compiler can't wait :)
Let us know, when you want to contribute... :)
> > This isn't a BETA release, there are bugs, and you shouldn't
> > expect to actually use this code for anything quite yet. The BETA
> > release will contain hints on how to use LibGalloc in an extension;
> > that's when the rubber hits the road.
> >
> > Help needed:
> >
> > 1) Christoph has lots of questions for anyone who knows anything and
> > everything about X programming.
>
> Read them, figuering them out...
Reading the API and the man-pages doesn't answer the questions I
have. For example, there is nowhere mentioned, if ...
1. ... X supports hw-sprites
2. ... X supports hw-buffers (Z-Buffer, Alpha-Buffer, etc...)
> > 2) If there are SGML nuts out there who can go through the docs
> > and mark up the terms/filenames/etc. and do cross links to external
> > GGI docs where appropriate, that would be super peachy.
> >
> > 3) Whoever is in charge or can volunteer to help fix CVS, DNS,
> > sourceforge, etc. we will probably be wanting to commit this soon,
> > and needing CVS at least working and a checklist of what should
> > be filled out at SourceForge.
>
> Used to maintain some CVS thingies once... What about DNS ? We
> must get the ggi-project entry back ? Sourceforge must be set up
> completely I guess ? Offering my help...
Ah... Good! I asked Stefan, if he want to create a module for each
extension and import the extensions into CVS there as noone seems to
do that. Maybe he will come up and help you later.
CU,
Christoph Egger
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