From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29647 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2004 17:45:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29639 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2004 17:45:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gencom001.gencom.us) (208.45.97.81) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 31 Oct 2004 17:45:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gencom001.gencom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1547DB3 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from gencom001.gencom.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gencom001.gencom.us [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15980-01 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:45:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (home [67.171.201.213]) by gencom001.gencom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C18D7D3D for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:45:20 -0800 (PST) From: "D. Cooper Stevenson" Reply-To: cstevens@gencom.us Organization: GenCom To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: SDL Interface Development Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:08:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20041031162812.SIHQ2188.mta11.adelphia.net@mail.adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <20041031162812.SIHQ2188.mta11.adelphia.net@mail.adelphia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410311748.51902.cstevens@gencom.us> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at gencom001 X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01375.txt.bz2 On Sunday 31 October 2004 16:28, ejessen@adelphia.net wrote: > [not including the libraries in the build raises] the barrier to entry so high, that > nobody but the most fanatical will attempt to maintain > the code. Which means the program will die out when > the fanatics move on. Insightful. On Sunday 31 October 2004 08:52, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote: > Just to chime in from the Solaris camp - this all sounds great, as long as > the dependent libraries are reasonably cross-platform and the build for > non-Linux/Windows machines (is that the diplomatic way to say "real Unix" > machines? :-) doesn't become untenable. Absolutely. Here's a quick 'fact check' listing the library dependancies and weather or not they currently support Linux, Sun, and Windows platforms: Libary Linux Mac 9 Mac OSX Sun Windows ------ ----- ------ --------- ----- --------- libsdl X X X X X paragui X X X ? X FreeType X X X X X Zlib X ? ? ? X libpng X X X X X SDL_Image X X X X X Expat X X X X X OpenGL X X X X X I was conservative. I'm pretty confident that Zlib is supported by Sun :). Overall my impression is that ParaGUI is careful about cross-platform compatibility. Please modify as necessary. -Coop