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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 22.03.2010 um 19:36 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>>> More "good" news, is that many of them dont need the new CSW X11, so
>>> there is no direct conflict. But those ones that use gtk, either
>>> directly, or INDIRECTLY, potentially have a problem.
>>
>> Ugh. Does that mean we need double libraries: one in lib/ bound
>> against Sun X11 and one in X11/lib bound against CSW X11 and the
>> apps go to decide?
>
> For some libraries... such as gtk.... yup looks like it.
>
> The "good" news is, we can probably just keep the legacy gtk libraries
> for those purposes.

So we don't provide newer versions which allow 3d acceleration?

> the matching bad news is, that still means, "no 3d hardware accel, for
> newer-fancier-gtk programs".
>
> Because as we previously found out.. some things just wont work with
> Sun X11, period.
> Even "newer" versions.
> All because of *#@$@ gtk "improvements".
>
> I dont remmeber the exact reasons, though; William's the expert on
> that. Maybe there's
> some kind of hack possible, but I'm scheptical about it.

William? Ping-ping-ping... :)


Best regards

   -- Dago