[M3devel] Modernising m3-ui?

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:50:20AM +0100, Chris wrote:
> It looks like most of the libs(Trestle, X11R4, OpenGL, etc...) in m3-ui haven't been touched or updated since the early 90s.
> 
> Seems like modernising it might attract some more developers. i.e. 
> Bring the X interface up to date(X11R6) and support things like DRM, 
> XRandr, etc... And update OpenGL for NURBS, VBOs, etc...

I hear the OpenGL itself is undergoing massive change at the moment.  We 
may have to replace its Modula 3 binding anyway.  The new OpenGL, I'm 
told, no longer deals in individual triangles, squares, and the like, 
but only in arrays of same, to better use graphic card parallelism.

-- hendrik