aiglx

[Rahul Sundaram]

Benjy Grogan wrote:

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>>The media likes to paint black and white situations of X vs Y while
>>there is also a code sharing between XGL and AIGLX going on.
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>You're referring to the GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension. 
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Not solely. Kindly refer to *both* the links posted earlier that you 
have trimmed off.

> Of course
>there will be sharing but ultimately they are two competing methods of
>improving X. 
>
Ya. Thats good and we have other approaches like XeGL too. Eventually 
the best code wins out. Thats how it works.

> AIGLX, AFAIK just appeared a few weeks ago.  Xgl has been in
>the works for a few years, and there's alot of thought behind it.
>
Code needs to be out and peer reviewed. Thats what matters.

>AIGLX appears to me to be all eye candy.  It's been put together last minute
>as an answer to Xgl.  
>
Really?  You might want to refer to the project page at 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/ for the ideas behind the 
project. Eye candy isnt specified as a goal at all. You might also want 
to look at Xorg development a bit more if you think these efforts are 
new by any means.


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Rahul