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

Hi,

On Monday 31 March 2003 20:13, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2003 10:58, Sven Luther wrote:
> |  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.
>
> In fact, there is not a lot of developers working on XSVG.
> It can be that they are just too busy at a moment to flood mailing list
> with mails.

Just wanting to make clear here I am working on koffice right now, probably 
until next koffice beta(this month?)

> In what aspect of XSVG you are interested in?
> In a short, I can tell you that sources are quite compact and easy to read,
> so if you want to learn about technology - you can do that by reading
> sources. In order to get XSVG/Xr/Xc running correctly, you need XFree86

I can support Vadim in this, sources are easy to read, and lets keep it that 
way :)
Cheers,

Rob.