[Squeak-VMdev] Re: [Squeak-Commits] squeak/platforms/unix/misc/rfb - New directory

[Ian P. <ian...@in...>]

Hi Cees,

> Update of /cvsroot/squeak/squeak/platforms/unix/misc/rfb
> Log Message:
> Directory /cvsroot/squeak/squeak/platforms/unix/misc/rfb added to the
> repository

There is already a fully-functional built-in RFB server (which can cohabit
and/or replace X11) for Unix 3.1 -- I just never pulled it into the main
distribution (after being `distracted' with getting 3.2 out of the door in
a hurry earlier this year).

The RFB stuff is going to be part of 3.3, which is very different from 3.2
internally and has modularised support code (where things like X, RFB,
sound, etc., are only loaded if needed).

  http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak/unix/3.1x-rfb/src/unix/

contains a VM that can happily serve X11 client(s), RFB client(s), neither
or both at the same time.  There are a few trivial endian issues remaining
in the RFB code, but it works perfectly on big-endian machines.

Regards,

Ian