I've been working at a client the last month and things have been way too busy for me to contribute to sharpos.. (or give enough attention to my family) but from next week on (i hope) i'll have more time to spend on sharpos once again. (and my family ;))
I noticed the complete overhaul in the repository.. wow, lots of changes looks good :) too bad it doesn't run too well tough :-/ but i guess that will be fixed soon.. I spend a little time on sharpws, cleaned things a bit up so that it actually compiles ;) still doesn't run tough. I was thinking tough.. right now sharpws has a library called sharpws and an executable called sharpws-server.. now it's not entirely clear, but it looks like the library has some client and common code.. maybe it's better to have 3 parts instead of 2; the client, the server and the host. The host is basically the actuall machine, the hardware if you will.. here are all the things that the client / server have in common and where they get all their resources from. The client and server parts only handle the protocol part of it all basically. This way it should also be simpler to have multiple servers and multiple clients, which could be usefull at some point. I'm also really concerned about font rendering, i did a bit of research into it a while ago and to say it's complicated is an understatement.. it's a whole research field on it's own! I think it's best to use bitmapped fonts for a while, and maybe eventually try to port (eek!) something like freetype to get proper font rendering working.. Also, i looked at the keymapping part and i realized that besides numlock mode is basically more or less the same (from a keymapping pov) as capslock mode. Also, the meanings of some keys are also different when you press ctrl, like pause/break etc. Which just makes me feel that key maps might need to be more flexible and handle as much 'modes' as they need. I haven't put much tought in it tough, just made the observation. I'm sure you all the papers on singularity, they have some interesting ideas on having driver manifests that define which ports/irq/dma's etc. the drivers use.. Which helps automatically check at install time if drivers would have conflicts, and helps port/irq/dma resource management.. Shouldn't be too hard to implement something simular using stubs and attributes.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ SharpOS-Developers mailing list SharpOS-Developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sharpos-developers
