On 03/19/2010 10:37 PM, Adam Tkac wrote: > Hello all, > > it's good time to check status of next major version of TigerVNC, 1.1. > > I quickly checked SVN log and it seems following features are already > commited in trunk (and aren't present in TigerVNC 1.0): > > 1. ASM-accelerated JPEG on AMD64/EMT64 platforms > 2. everything is compilable via GNU build chain > 3. X.Org 1.7 and 1.8 support (with XKB extension support) > 4. Xvnc now supports "-interface" parameter > 5. more platform-independent speed improvements in libjpeg > 6. bunch of other fixes and minor improvements > > Now it's time to decide what we want in 1.1 release, other things will > be deferred to 1.2 > > There are multiple requested features (and bugs) in out tracker, in my opinion > those should be addressed in 1.1 release: > > 1. "Please develop some documentation" (ID 2872352) > - such feature is always painful but we should extend our doc a little > 2. Finally get Java applet working > - Java applet is not compilable on new Linux-based systems. Alan > Coopersmith has already posted patches but noone has time to look > onto them: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00451.html > It isn't entirely clear what needs doing, if it was, I may be able to help here. Just let me know.
Cheers Antoine > Those major features are requested but AFAIK noone has time to work on them. > Let's decide if we want them in 1.1 or not. > > 1. Encryption support > - we can port gnutls-based patches proposed by Martin Koegler > 2. Full IPv6 support > > In my opinion we should try to include encryption support > (https://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~mkoegler/index.php/tlsvnc) because > many people would like to have it there. I'm going to start on this > task. IPv6 support can be deferred to 1.2 because I don't want wait > for 1.1 forever. > > More features are requested in our tracker but they are not high > priority so they can be deferred to 1.2 as well. > > After we get "encryption" and "java applet" features in we can release > the first alpha - 1.0.90. > > Do you have other proposals and recommendations what should be > included to 1.1, please? Your comments are welcomed. > > Regards, Adam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
