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On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 12:36 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Aug 19, 05 11:55:25 +0200, Christian Parpart wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> well, within X11, as an end-user, I'd like to know what exactly the future of </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Xgl/Xegl is?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> After having read the "Stopping work on EGL and Xgl" by Jon Smirl on exactly </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> my birthday's day, I must say I am really confused.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">David is still busy working on Xgl. Jon was mostly contributing a large</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">part to Xegl, the stand-alone version of Xgl.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'm sad he left, but development will continue. There are still so many</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">rough edges and unfinished buisness in Xgl itself, that work naturally</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">concentrates on this stuff.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> However, are there others that are contributing to it? Is there even *any* </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> future of getting OpenGL-backed X11 some day?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I assume so :)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I wouldn't work on it otherwise.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">There is one more thing going on that *really* makes me nervous:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">M$ trying to push out OpenGL from Windows:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/cgi_directory/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000001">http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/cgi_directory/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000001</A></FONT>
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That makes even more important to have a big project, like Xgl, based on OpenGL. This way video card vendors will understand that maintaining OpenGL on their cards is useful to Linux not just to run 3D screensavers.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">CU</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Matthias</FONT>
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