libXrender - documentation?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Beso wrote:

> 2009/1/26 Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com>:
>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
>>
>>>>> I know that its not easy, but someone can't expect a step-by-step
>>>>> tutorial for such low-level stuff.
>>>>
>>>> hmm - the obvious conclusion is that xft is just a minor/useless library.
>>>> Perhaps it should be removed, then.
>>> The whole discussion is about RENDER's documentation, not xft.
>>
>> very well, then apply my comments to "RENDER" (they're both presented
>> as libraries that no one should try to use without some other library
>> as a sanitizing layer).
>>
> maybe i'm missing the point: what's the point in a library that needs 
> another library in order to be used? i don't really think it's a good 
> idea. maybe it would be better to better implement the library in order 
> for it to be used without another sanitizing library, that would cost 
> more resources.

A library may provide a useful abstraction (algorithms that can be 
implemented on top of other system-specific, etc., libraries).

If the interfaces are documented, it's possible to change the library
implementations without breaking applications.

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