On Mar 28, 2011, at 10:25 AM, ron minnich wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net> wrote:
>> ron, i think one of us is confused. your response reads like yiyus
>> is proposing an xlib to run on Plan 9, and pointing out that work
>> on lguest would be much more bang for the buck. that's likely true,
>> but I think his proposal was on the Unix side, to get all the non-
>> plan9 things using it, where it's not clear lguest really has a role.
> 
> oops. too early jusr jet-lagged.

Speaking as an Inferno and P9P user on OS X, I definitely do not want
more X11 libraries linked in as that would prevent emu from launching
on certain hosts.  So I'm not inclined towards a libxdraw on my
primary 9vx, p9p, and Inferno hosts.

That said, I do like the p9p implementation of libdraw + devdraw as
that frees up the linked in requirements and lets end users experiment
with different versions of devdraw rather easily.  Note devdraw(1):

     BUGS
          Devdraw should probably present a standard 9P server instead
          of using its own protocol.

A 9P server and new libdraw (please, no X in the name as that's like
Ron's declaration about I, E, and the number of letters in an acronym--
someone needs to put it into fortunes)  Getting access to a 9P based
window server running on non-Plan 9 targets would be nice.  Especially
as that should also free up the devdraw to use whatever graphics+mouse+
extras in an event loop required for non-Plan 9 hosts.

-jas

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