Re: nmf packages

From: mallum <breakfast.a.t.10.am>
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 12:38:21 EDT

on Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:16:36PM +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
>
> It has obviously been some time since I had a look at the uClibc pages
> ;) It has evolved quite well and their list of applications running
> without modifications is quite impressive! Just one of the most
> important apps has to be tweaked: XFree ;)
>
I dont think that info is quite up to date, Im *pretty* sure Xfree
will now compile with no modifications.

[snip]
 
> > A possible future alternative to an xlib butchering is XCB [3] which
> > is nearing alpha release.
>
> I think this will still need some time to evolve to a level of
> completeness so that we could use for GPE. From what I understand also
> GTK, which version ever, would have to be tailored to it too.
>
Yes its still in its infancy, but definetly something to watch. It
also includes XLB which is a xlib compatibility layer so no
modifications needed to existsing apps.

  -- Matthew
Received on Thu Aug 15 16:38:14 2002

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