A new SDL back-end we've been toying with

[Jakob Eriksson]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:21:20PM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Gavriel State wrote:
> 
> > Now, the interesting thing is this: Once we have a GDI renderer, we can
> > eliminate a *huge* amount of DIBSection cruft from the X11 driver.  Currently
> > Wine goes through astounding manipulations to get X to draw things for
> > us when we should be doing it ourselves.  This is very slow, and affects 
> > more apps than you might think (ie: WordPerfect).
> 
> I know that we've had our share of problems from the lack of such
> renderer. Currently, we ask X to do the work for us, as you describe. Now,
> XFree86 is licensed under a Wine-compatible license. Why can't we simply
> get the XFree86 code directly into Wine, to get our own renderer?

NOW is the time to sync with ReactOS, if not big duplicate effort
will occur.


regards,
Jakob