2009/5/24 Massimo Del Fedele max@veneto.com
I'm looking forward to this hitting upstream :) Have the architectural
issues been solved yet?
Nope, and I think they will not be solved soon. Not by me, anyways.
I made my engine because I was needing it, but Alexandre don't like its architecture, so it won't be merged even if, IMHO of course, it could be done as an "alternative experimental driver" in parallel to current winex11 one, which could spread its usage and testing a lot more. But Alexandre didn't like that solution, ever.
I assume all this took place on IRC because unless I missed it, Alexandre hasn't deigned to comment on here about what the right architectural solution would be.
Sorry to sound like a stuck record but the Wine website still lists "write a DIB engine" as a requirement, and every time someone does, the patches dissapear down a hole because they're "not right". Someone document what "would be right", or take "write a DIB engine" off the list. I'd love to have a go at documenting it myself, but I don't have the time to reverse engineer it from a few years' worth of rejected solutions.
-- Chris