From: <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] svgalib
Date: Sun Feb 11 16:10:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010211160902.B32617@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010211144216.B31763@cvs.gentoo.org>; from pete@gentoo.org on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:42:16PM -0700
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:42:16PM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> > > I just added svgalib-1.4.2 to dev-libs. Looks like it compiles fine,
> > > but I dont have any programs to test it w/ just yet.
> > >
> >
> > svgalib was a missing link. :-)
> > I'm currently reworking media-libs over here. Don't you think that is
> > the place for svgalib?
>
> I don't really think so... svgalib doesn't handle any kind of media
> format or anything like that. It just lets you use the graphics modes
> allowed by your video card. There's a lot of stuff you can use svgalib
> for, not just games. I think maybe we could make a new category, like
> gfx-libs, for stuff like svgalib, ggi, mesa3d, etc.
Right now, the correct location for svgalib is in media-libs. "media" is our
generic term to classify things that are audio-video or "multimedia" related,
since there are so many things that have both audio and video components. You
don't need to handle a media format to be in media-libs.
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-10 18:06 [gentoo-dev] svgalib Pete Gavin
2001-02-10 20:34 ` drobbins
2001-02-11 14:36 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-11 14:43 ` Pete Gavin
2001-02-11 15:24 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-11 16:10 ` drobbins [this message]
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