Re: GNUstep-corebase to be released next week

[Gregory Casamento]

I just confirmed with David that Opal doesn't currently integrate with
GNUstep.   What's required, I believe, is an Opal based GNUstep
backend so that the Opal context and the NSGraphicsContext are
compatible and can be interchanged (like under Cocoa).

If we do this, it might be a good idea to make the Opal backend
replace the Cairo backend as the default, if and only if opal is
available.  We want to make certain that people aren't forced to use
Opal unless they want to.

This way the backend order would go like this:

Opal, if available, if not then...
Cairo, if available, if not then...
Art, if available, if not then...
Xlib, if available, if not then...
OH WELL!

That seems reasonable to me. ;)

GC

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Stefan Bidi <stefanbidi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Gregory Casamento
> <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm just asking when I can use opal to render to an NSView in GUI. :)
>>  Is this currently possible?
>
> Oh... I have no idea.  That would be up to Eric, I guess.  Corebase
> just tries to implement CoreFoundation, nothing else.  Even then, it
> is still lacking major functionality like CFBundle, CFRunLoop and
> CFXML.  I wanted to get a release out and see if I could get a few
> more folks interested.



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