From: Emmanuel Marty <core@suntech.fr>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 17:16:37 +0000

Re: Big changes to CVS tree

Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> [I did]
>
> > Ok - will give it a compilation try and testing, and probably porting ggidoom,
> > warp and such to the new scheme, when you are finished today.
>
> [snip]
>
> You're welcome to do that, but note that this may not be the final
> API, as we haven't discussed it with Andy yet.
>

Well, ggidoom, warp and others aren't part of the CVS tree, so publishing
patches won't hurt and will help testing the new scheme :)

> But on the other hand it will definitely be closer to the final API
> than to the API any existing GGI apps use, so porting to this API
> may be a good idea anyway. :)

I think so.. It'll provide a testbed (Linus said he was "testing memory
management" playing doom.. i'll test the new directbuffer scheme.. :-)

> > And you can test there is no endianness or 32-bit bias anywhere :-)
>
> Endianess? Alphas are little-endian too, at least when running
> Digital Unix... ;-)
>

Hmm, I thought Alpha's were big-endian. My mistake. I own one, but
haven't done much programming on it yet .. (one's got only one
life, eh? :)

> No, it's not a raveparty, it's more of a... well, festival ;)
> 20% of the people within a 20km radius from Stockholm pack
> themselves into an area in central Stockholm with a 1km radius,
> trying to have a good time. :)

Trying to imitate Tokyo or something? ;)

> There's some info about it at http://www.waterfestival.se/program_eng.html
> if you're intrested.

Will have a look :)

> Btw, while looking at the libggi sources I repeatedly ask myself:
> Who is it that have been checked and why, and by whom...

Well, be happy, I wonder "why does this work?" looking at my code
sometimes..

--
Emmanuel