Re: What's left for a 4.2 release? [drivers]

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On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:55:46PM -0700, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Sunday 29 January 2006 08:55 pm, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> >    + I'm glad to see there is ongoing work on an OpenGL terminal,
> >      but I don't see much chance anything will be ready for 4.2

>     No response. Let's drop this one from consideration for 4.2

    I had a look at implementing full 3D drivers back when I was
thinking of adding a povray terminal driver. Before any of these 3D
drivers can be implemented we need a full rework of the plotting code to
work in 3D until the last moment and then project.

    I have a few ideas on what needs to be done (although it has been so
long since I looked at that that I forgot most of what I had learnt) but
I am far from having enough time to do it myself. Anyhow, this a big
change that should not be considered before next release.

	Good luck with the 4.2 release, it will be much appreciated in
the labs (some features like plotting with images, or rgb colours are
really usefull).

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