On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Beso wrote: > 2009/1/26 Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com>: >> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Clemens Eisserer wrote: >> >>>>> I know that its not easy, but someone can't expect a step-by-step >>>>> tutorial for such low-level stuff. >>>> >>>> hmm - the obvious conclusion is that xft is just a minor/useless library. >>>> Perhaps it should be removed, then. >>> The whole discussion is about RENDER's documentation, not xft. >> >> very well, then apply my comments to "RENDER" (they're both presented >> as libraries that no one should try to use without some other library >> as a sanitizing layer). >> > maybe i'm missing the point: what's the point in a library that needs > another library in order to be used? i don't really think it's a good > idea. maybe it would be better to better implement the library in order > for it to be used without another sanitizing library, that would cost > more resources.
A library may provide a useful abstraction (algorithms that can be implemented on top of other system-specific, etc., libraries). If the interfaces are documented, it's possible to change the library implementations without breaking applications. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg