DirectX 10 start as a SoC project?

[Bryan Haskins]

I'm no actual dev here by any means, but I think anything more than setting
up the extreme basics would take away from the work done on 8, and 9. As not
much uses 10 yet it would be a bit premature to do a ton of work on it.
Porting the current code if only to the point of 10 working as well as 9 or
8 without the fancy new calls would suffice for now, and yes, I also think
we should have a Vista version if only for the sake of consistency, it
wouldn't really be any different than XP for us at the core just throwing
the tag up there.

I say focus SoC on 8 and 9, imagine having a more complete 8 and 9 then 10
would be cake, as I understand it all it does it add new calls right? And
possibly dig up the theming zombie, so we might have that finally lol.

On 3/10/07, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Thinking about SoC I though that starting a DirectX 10 implementation may
> be a
> good summer of code project. I do not mean implementing the full d3d10
> lib,
> that would be way to much, more starting the infrastructure. Henri
> disagreed
> with the idea, so I thought I'll write a mail for public discussion :-) .
> Looking at the timeline for SoC I hope it isn't too late.
>
> My idea is to start a d3d10 implementation up to the following point:
>
> -> Add a winver Windows Vista to make version checkers happy :-)
> -> Create the d3d10 lib and start the .idl file for header generation
> -> Write stubs for the functions to allow the app to create all the
> interfaces
> -> Write test cases for reference counting. ddraw and d3d9 show that
> Microsoft
> does not stick to its own COM rules
> -> Make methods that have already 1:1 equivalents in wined3d call wined3d.
> Add
> other methods as required to wined3d.
> -> Implement them as far as you feel like :-)
>
> I think the good thing about this is that there are is not much knowledge
> about wined3d and d3d10 necessary at the start. The one who works on it
> can
> learn the d3d10 interface while writing the stubs and learn about wined3d
> when starting to call it.
>
> Opinions? Suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
Cheers,
Bryan
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