Fwd: [alkyproject-announce] End of an era
Can that code be used in wine? the DX implementation could help I think
Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 15:46:43 schrieb Marco da Silva:
Can that code be used in wine? the DX implementation could help I think Not really, no. I had a quick look at it, and it is at best a hello world implementation.
Looking at their D3D10 implementation, it is comparable to Andras' soc code, with the difference that Alky has a few lines to create a gl context and send off vertices, but Andras has written a D3D10.idl header. Adding the functionality of Alky to Andras' code is a matter of hours, if we do it the hacky way. So all in all I think that the not yet integrated d3d10 that Wine has is more advanced. (Andras: Do you plan to continue working on that somewhen?) As far as other libraries go, there isn't much to see either. D3D9 isn't even comparable to the very first out-of-tree patch Oliver put onto Sourceforge years ago. No handling for stateblocks or shaders, no proper texture handling, no vertex arrays, etc. The other libraries are in a similar state. D3DX has a few math functions implemented, but we have all of that already thanks to David and the other D3DX hackers. While the code may not be of any use for us(or anyone else, since Wine exists), Cody seems to have written a lot of code. It might not be comparable to Wine, which has enjoyed the work of almost thousand developers and is almost 15 years old, it seems to be quite some accomplishment for a project which has been developed by apparently one(two?) persons. (I have no comparison how Wine started though. I only had a Gameboy back then :-) ) And kudos to them for releasing the source!
Well at least some of the code they created can be used to do something and help the project, and how knows, maybe one of them may join Wine and help. Yes I almost forgot about the soc code, any ideas when will that code start being used in wine? And thanks Alky, why not help wine? ;) Stefan Dösinger escreveu:
Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 15:46:43 schrieb Marco da Silva:
Can that code be used in wine? the DX implementation could help I think
Not really, no. I had a quick look at it, and it is at best a hello world implementation.
Looking at their D3D10 implementation, it is comparable to Andras' soc code, with the difference that Alky has a few lines to create a gl context and send off vertices, but Andras has written a D3D10.idl header. Adding the functionality of Alky to Andras' code is a matter of hours, if we do it the hacky way. So all in all I think that the not yet integrated d3d10 that Wine has is more advanced. (Andras: Do you plan to continue working on that somewhen?)
As far as other libraries go, there isn't much to see either. D3D9 isn't even comparable to the very first out-of-tree patch Oliver put onto Sourceforge years ago. No handling for stateblocks or shaders, no proper texture handling, no vertex arrays, etc. The other libraries are in a similar state. D3DX has a few math functions implemented, but we have all of that already thanks to David and the other D3DX hackers.
While the code may not be of any use for us(or anyone else, since Wine exists), Cody seems to have written a lot of code. It might not be comparable to Wine, which has enjoyed the work of almost thousand developers and is almost 15 years old, it seems to be quite some accomplishment for a project which has been developed by apparently one(two?) persons. (I have no comparison how Wine started though. I only had a Gameboy back then :-) )
And kudos to them for releasing the source!
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