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

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +0400, 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.
> 
> In what aspect of XSVG you are interested in?

Just lurking, nothing serious as i don't have much time for it. I had
been participating in a project who was thinking about writing games in
the ocaml language, using SDL. An idea was to use SVG graphics, which
would get rendered to SDL surfaces which then would be blitted around or
something. For that we adapted librsvg, but i hear that xsvg is an
adaptation thereof also. BTW, do you know of any library that enables to
modify the SVG images directly (like rotating them and such), librsvg
only does scaling.

> 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 4.2.99 or newer 
> (4.3.0 release).
> Render ext. from XFree86 4.2.0 is not compatible with Xr/Xc/Xsvg (it misses 
> 'trapezoid' primitive)

Ok, i will have a look when i get time.

BTW, i will be dropping xfree86-forum from the recipient, i hope this is
ok.

Friendly,

Sven Luther