<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">These are very good points and I really appreciate your input.<div>I will research this over the next couple of days and see if I can make some sense of it.</div><div><br></div><div>I will again try and decipher the spice-glib part of the spice-gtk project.</div><div>It would help me quite a bit if you would point me to specific files and or libraries to focus on.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks very much</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 8, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:35:54AM -0500, Cliff Sharp wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">My feeling is that it would be best to totally replace/remove glib and as<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">many unix libraries as makes sense; mainly from performance and cross<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">platform perspectives. I feel that continuing to try and port all these<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">unix based libraries to run on smart devices (even though a number of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">these smart devices contain custom unix kernels) is way too time<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">consuming and down the road may lead to be counter productive due to the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">factors I mention below. Also, all these unix libraries, as part of a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">smart device bundles, require a very large memory footprint.<br></blockquote><br>Well, I specifically mentioned glib because it shouldn't have many<br>dependencies, is highly portable/ported, and I don't think most of your<br>"arguments" apply to it. And I think it the spice-glib code would handle<br>most of hte low-level stuff for you, "just" leaving you some opengl<br>rendering code to build on top of it (though the existing client in<br>spice/client has optional GL support already).<br>If even glib proves too much, then you'll have to start from scratch<br>(spice-protocol + protocol docs) and reimplement things yourself, which<br>will be much more work.<br><br>Christophe<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8CC63F"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">____</font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Sans'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005581"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="LucidaSans-Demi" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Cliff Sharp</span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8CC63F"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>|</span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="LucidaSans-Demi" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="mailto:csharp@vbridges.com">csharp@vbridges.com</a></span></font></font></font></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br></div></body></html>