Xegl lives!

[Jim Gettys]

Owen,

For completeness, your write up should note that modern open source
toolkits are cross platform, and Xprint does not exist/is not a viable
solution on Windows or MacIntosh, and thereby would require cross
platform application writers to have multiple printing solutions, rather
than something that can/will integrate into the target OS printing
solution.

				- Jim

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:39 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 09:29 +0200, Felix Schulte wrote:
> > On 5/25/05, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> > > Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > > BTW, I do support the Cairo effort. We obviously needed a 2D API that
> > > > could print.
> > > 
> > > We had one - Xlib with Xprint.   8-)
> > had --> have, its still alive, even after Keith Packards attempts to
> > beat it to death during his Cairo-is-the-one-and-only-API crusade and
> > declare it obsolete (which it isn't)
> 
> How does Keith get the credit for this? I'm jealous. Xprint obviously
> filled (even fills) a purpose for some people.. great. But it's the
> wrong architecture and irrelevant to the future.
> 
> Here's a writeup I did a while ago, then never posted because I didn't
> want to fan the flames at that point:
> 
>  http://people.redhat.com/~otaylor/why-xprint-is-wrong.html
> 
> Regards,
> 						Owen
> 
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