From: Earnie B. <ear...@ya...> - 2000-10-27 14:42:19
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--- Paul Garceau <pga...@te...> wrote: > > > On 24 Oct 2000, at 1:13, the Illustrious Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > > > Hello Earnie, > > > > Earnie Boyd wrote on Tuesday, October 24, 2000: > > > > EB> Opinions of whether we should include them in the w32api > > package or create a EB> separate package? > > Since the DirectX API really isn't part of the Win32api, my > opinion is that we should not, at least not initially. I was asking because I've been asking. The question isn't whether we should include them but is instead where should they be included? > If there are a lot of requests for Dx functionality, then there > might well be a reason to re-evaluate such a policy. > I don't understand what you are trying to say. > In the meantime, I have a number of concerns re: Dx support > > If we attempt to maintain it, we will be dealing with a lot of > proprietary issues and questions about DirectX and an assumption > will be made that we are responsible for maintaining ongoing > updates for DirectX under Mingw. We would only be adding contributed clean room created headers. It's not going to be any different than we already have. > Fact is, it is fairly easy to build Dx apps given the current > availability of the Dx stuff (6.1 was last one I remember being > available for Gnu development) AT (After Tweaking). References? Examples? Howto's? > However, this will only be true for as long as MS continues to > supply downward compatibility to a given Dx release version. > Last I checked, that compatibility extended to Dx3 given the > latest version of the Dx API. > MS is no longer supporting NT4 in terms of updates/service > packs outside of security patches, etc. This would indicate > that Dx3 support may disappear entirely from the downward > compatibility list of the Dx API. I don't see how this and the clipped quotes below applies to our situation. -8<- ->8- Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:ear...@ya... --- <http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com> --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows <http://gw32.freeyellow.com/> --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows <http://www.mingw.org/> --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ |