[csw-maintainers] bad news on the CSW X11 front

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Fri Mar 19 21:12:51 CET 2010


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 2010/3/19 Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>:
>> That means, stuff that we compile against the nice new shiney X11,
>> cannot use (sun provided) hardware 3d accel .
>>
>> The good news is, there are precious few packages that truely *need* 3d accel.
>>
>> The bad news is, its still going to be "less shiney" in some areas.
>>
>> ones that would directly benefit from hardware 3d in common usage (I
>> may have missed some but these are bad enough):
>>
>> wxwidgets_gtk2
>
> I think that this one needs CSW X11, because it links against gtk,
> which links against CSW X11.  Is there a need for wxwidgets to have 3d
> acceleration?
>

well, "need" is relative. apparently it offers some 3d api, that some
programs may take advantage of?
kicad uses wxwidgets.

and wxwidgets DOES have a "direct" dependancy on mesalibs.


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