Re: DirectFB
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>>> "Sinisa" == Sinisa Milivojevic
<sinisa(a)mysql.com> writes:
Sinisa> Will it be possible to build XEmacs 21.5 on DirectFB on
Sinisa> Linux ??
If that's what it sounds like (a libsvga for the framebuffer device), I
kinda doubt it any time soon. That's a whole new console type, which is
a fair amount of effort. Reasonably straight forward, as the
proliferation of console types shows, but time consuming since XEmacs has
so much functionality.
The GTK port would probably work. I've been meaning to try it, but have
been in permanent fire-drill mode at work for quite a while. :( I talked
with ben a 2 months ago or so about reworking a lot of the display code so
that X & GTK would be shared (and we could theoretically move windows to
common code as well), but I haven't gotten a response in a while and
haven't had a lot of time to play with it lately.
*sigh*
I really think that the current GTK code should be largely scrapped and a
GTK2 (possibly Qt) port done and used as a testbed for factoring out large
chunks of duplicated code in the Gtk/X/Qt ports. If anybody wants to work
on this please let me know.
I was originally planning on being on vacation all of june, but have scaled
that back to try and sell the house. So I have a week at the end of june
that I could dedicate to the gtk2 port.
I apologize to everyone for being so spotty in responding to emails about
emacs/w3 or xemacs for the last 6 months. :(
-bp
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