On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Pat Suwalski wrote: > Hello again! > > Could anyone tell me briefly what happened to libpex5 and libxie between > 4.1.0 and 4.2.0? They still have directories under xc/programs/Xserver, > but they don't actually product the libraries anymore as far as I can > tell. Thanks!
Those extensions are no longer installed by default. They haven't been maintained in a long time, and it appeared that no one was using them. PEX5 was a 3D library, and most applications have moved over to OpenGL instead. The GLX extension supports OpenGL, and many drivers support hardware acceleration of this. XIE was an image processing library, but was too complicated for most purposes. The XV extension supports a useful subset of the functionality; again many drivers support hardware acceleration. Tyr adding these lines: #define BuildPexExt YES #define BuildXIE YES to xc/config/cf/host.def if you wish to try building the server with these extensions, and see xc/config/cf/xf86site.def -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
