Re: [xsvg] Re: A strawman proposal for X.org & XFree86.org

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:49:12PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Sunday 30 March 2003 19:35, Marco Bubke wrote:
> |  Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> |  > Vadim Plessky wrote:
> |  >> On Sunday 30 March 2003 03:31, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> |  >>
> |  >> Som epeople mentioned that we need to through away Xlib in favour of
> |  >> Xr/Xc,
> |  >
> |  > I've not seen that and I from what I've seen Xr/Xc aren't supposed to
> |  > be a
> |  > complete replacement for Xlib - just a different rendering model.
> |  > (There's
> |  > much more to Xlib than just the drawing routines.)
> |
> |  But what are the advantages over OpenGL which I have anyway and which is
> |  here and hardware accelerated now? Render/Xr/Xc it loos to me like a
> |  subset of OpenGL. Is this a other sign of the NIH syndrom? The
> 
> AFAIK, Render extension is pretty much different from OpenGL.
> I have cc'ed XSVg mailing list, may be Carl or other people familiar with 

Is it just me, or is the XSVg mailing list totally deserted, this is the
first mail i got trough it since i subscribed to it on march 23.

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