[Spice-devel] Spice-iOS

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:35:54AM -0500, Cliff Sharp wrote:
> My feeling is that it would be best to totally replace/remove glib and as
> many unix libraries as makes sense; mainly from performance and cross
> platform perspectives. I feel that continuing to try and port all these
> unix based libraries to run on smart devices (even though a number of
> these smart devices contain custom unix kernels) is way too time
> consuming and down the road may lead to be counter productive due to the
> factors I mention below. Also, all these unix libraries, as part of a
> smart device bundles, require a very large memory footprint.

Well, I specifically mentioned glib because it shouldn't have many
dependencies, is highly portable/ported, and I don't think most of your
"arguments" apply to it. And I think it the spice-glib code would handle
most of hte low-level stuff for you, "just" leaving you some opengl
rendering code to build on top of it (though the existing client in
spice/client has optional GL support already).
If even glib proves too much, then you'll have to start from scratch
(spice-protocol + protocol docs) and reimplement things yourself, which
will be much more work.

Christophe
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