On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Curtis Veit wrote:
> > Hope the message is good news fo you, I'm glad we finally get support from
> > within a company. I really hope you are able to get kgi working, and your
> > superiors like the idea.
> >
>
> Ah yes, that is the crux of it. Actually the idea of KGI/GGI
> should be relatively easy for management types to accept. My
> problem has been about 50% of the other senior engineers. Many
> seem to want to roll their own from FB. Some say "So what does
> GGI/KGI give me that I don't get with allegro, SDL (or other
> favorite API)?" My answer of a uniform interface for any
> OS/hardware and resource management does not seem to grab their
> interest.
Ask them, if Allegro and SDL is as extensible as KGI/GGI is? Can
Allegro/SDL make use of any new (revolutionary) hardware-features
without rewriting/bloating it?
> They also worry about speed.
That might be true, because of the current development state of
KGI/GGI. But as soon as GGI has some extensions including accelerated
targets, there is no reason of worrying about speed.
To come with KGI in speed it needs drivers, drivers, drivers (full
accelerated).
> And seem to think that SDL or allegro gives a uniform interface
> over different platforms. (However, as there seems to be no other
> common API that provides resource management I really can't see
> another choice. Perhaps they want to start from the beginning?
> I'd guess that this group has found and fixed a number of
> pitfalls that I would rather avoid.)
I suggest you to port SDL and allegro to GGI. The reason: They are
able to run their applications on top of GGI. Then you can compare
the speed with and without GGI. The port of their apps to GGI is much
easier then, too. And - if you are clever enough - you can gain more
arguments for KGI/GGI rather easy.
> (Is there a better list to use to send tech info or comparisons
> of approaches in Linux useful for a white paper on KGI and GGI.
> I'd be interested in writing something up. Unfortunatly I suspect
> I'd need a little help from the group here to do a good job.)
This list is only KGI-relevant. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is the
GGI-list. Please check out http://www.ggi-project.org/ for
subscribtion info.
I post this mail to both KGI- and GGI-List, because this topic
refers to both projects.
> Anyway I'm sold, I just need to get a moderatly useable version
> going with our other software and sell management on the idea.
> (and compile a few wiz-bang demos etc.)
We are glad to help you out whereever we can.
CU,
Christoph Egger
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
