Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Ray, > Sure, I agree, it's just that I have gotten a bit discouraged by the > fact that I'm working by myself. All the work I've done on the code isn't > going to help the Linux version if I can't get anyone to use it. > A bit of support would go a long way. The biggest problem we face is the > fact that Glenn and some of the others are still trying to polish a > turd so to speak by continuing to believe that the old sources can be > tweeked into shape, whereas the fact is that they are fundamentaly > flawed at the deepest level. I think somebody has just suggested thet we should agree to disagree. Maybe we should simply agree to disagree with you on that matter. ;-) > I've pretty much got core.exe whipped into shape, so I've started to > intigrate the video library directly into the core so that it becomes > easy to see where the changes need to be made to port it to Linux. > As it is, the Linux port doesn't use the XLOPIF library which is too > bad, since the library contains low level stuff that is essential without > another layer of patches and fixes to compensate for it's absence. > Xchaos himself was smart enough to give up on that approach. > In the last week I've cut over 300K of code from the .lib -- either > irrelevant or integrated directly into core and optimized. Perhaps that is the wrong approach, perhaps it should rather the code that is *not* shared by all ports be kept in a separate library. > Alas, I've lead the horse to water but it refuses to drink. Perhaps that is because you have hitched up the carriage before the horse. ;-) Udo -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --