[Kde-graphics-devel] KImageF ?

[Zack Rusin]

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 09:08, Ignacio Castaño wrote:
> What makes you think that way? We have no plans on stop supporting
> Cg, in fact, Cg 1.5 is going to be our best release so far.
>
> My only concern with Cg is the lack of a free implementation, but
> there's nothing stopping developers writting their own
> implementation. We tried to encourage that by releasing the compiler
> frontend and "Cg" is not protected by any trademark so that people
> could write their own implementations and still call them "Cg".

Interesting. So you'll continue supporting 3 SL? 
Unfortunately we have to support OpenGL SL anyway and it simply doesn't 
look like we'll have enough resources to maintain more than one SL in 
Mesa which is really the limiting factor here.

> You can currently use the arbfp target of the Cg compiler and use the
> Mesa software implementation. Cg 1.4 also has a software backend, but
> it's very slow and currently does not support texture sampling, so
> it's not very useful for that purpouse.

Yeah, in that sense that solution would be nice but I'm a little 
hesitant when it comes to adding a hard requirement of some kind of 
OpenGL implementation to KDE. I don't know, maybe it's not a problem 
anymore but I'm sensing quite a few people would be very unhappy about 
that.
I guess the bottom line is that unfortunately either I or someone else 
would have to get very motivated to create an open implementation that 
supports more than just i86 and x86-64 (for example currently I'm on a 
powerbook, and as much as I'd love to get my hands on a i86 laptop, 
especially with NVIDIA card, to try out Cg 1.5 it doesn't look like 
it's going to happen (mainly because I don't want to be spending money 
on a 17'' laptop and I'm not the biggest fan of 6200, which leaves 
6400, 6600, 7300 and 7800 - from what i've seen, all but the first used 
in 17'' laptops, well the third just impossible to get at all). 


Zack

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