Re: ANN: GLX 0.1

Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:03:06 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Janis Dzerins <[email protected]> writes:

> Ok, after the long night from friday to monday I'm back online :)  A
> patch with the GLX hack is attached.

Obsessive followers of CVS will know that I merged this last weekend.


> Since I don't have much free hack-time I have some doubts found
> their way into my head.  Namely, whether it's worth the trouble to
> work on the GLX extension...  I think it is better in the long term
> to create interfaces to foreign libraries and let the monkey armies
> do the work -- that way we (lispniks) benefit from their work and
> that frees us more precious time to hack on other things.  (But you
> all already know this, I suppose.)

Speaking personally, I'm not quite so sure that we are doomed either
to use opaque libraries or to obsolescence.  This probably isn't the
forum for this discussion, and in any case...

> So, anyway, here's the patch!

... thank you very much for the contribution.

Cheers,

Christophe

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