[Xorg] PEX and XIE

[Roland Mainz]

Egbert Eich wrote:
> XFree86 eliminated PEX and XIE from its tree after the release of
> 4.3.0. Basically the reason for this was that noone had shown any
> interest in these extensions. Furthermore noone seemed to be able
> to test PEX any more to verify that it works correctly and it
> was widely believed that it has been broken due to other changes
> in X.
> 
> I would like to drop these files from the Xorg release version I'm
> currently working on to reduce the amount of dead code we ship.
> 
> Is there any strong objection (with a good reason)?
> 
> Furthermore I'd like find out if anyone
> 1. is still interested in supports these extensions

Mozilla's Xlib toolkit has support for XIE... and maybe the (default)
GTK+ toolkit for Mozilla get it's XIE support back since this gives a
huge speedup for image scaling/blending on platforms who still have XIE
support available by default (I am looking here at Solaris/Xsun :) ...
PEX can (IMO) be removed... but if you remove XIE it would be nice to
provide an alternative which supports things like image scaling,
rotation and blending (RENDER doesn't count - it's broken by design...
;-/).

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Bye,
Roland

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