Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
19 Sep 2004 Frank Heckenbach frank@g-n-u.de wrote:
since Mariano has ended his GRX maintaining cycle, there's still the question of how to continue.
Well, one way to continue is by tearing GRX apart and using the pieces in other projects... life after death.
Well, I don't consider it dead. We're still using actively using it. I think it's still a good choice if you need a "plain", portable, and easy to install graphics library.
(I'd like to stress the "easy to install part". I haven't tried to build SDL lately, but with many other current "fashionable" libraries and projects, my experience was that they have so many dependencies that it was [almost] impossible to install them on a system unless there wasn't a prepackaged binary for that system available already or you spent way too much time. OTOH, GRX (for my purposes) only requires libpng and libjpeg, both optional and easy to install as well ...)
Currently, there are four diffs against 2.4.6 [...] it would seem useful to at least make a new archive with the existing patches [...] Does anyone feel like doing so? Dimitar, what about you?
Not likely.
OK, so if no-one else volunteers, I'll probably make a new archive with the patches I have. If there are other patches I should include, let me know.
Me ported the GRX font routines to SDL, changing some things ad-hoc (buffer overflows, endian handling),
Were these bugs in GRX? If so, could you please send me just the bugfixes (without SDL porting, if that's easily possible), so I can do this as well)?
Frank