Texteroids

[Nicholas Wourms]

Juliusz,

Is what Alan saying true?  Are there no plans to have a server side DPS
extension officially in the xfree distribution?  I noticed from the cvs
activity that the libraries are still being maintained...

Cheers,
Nicholas
--- Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Ummm,
> 
> Excuse me, but you are wrong....
> 
> The RELNOTES2 is actually incorrect. There is no extension. That
> means server side support. There is however client side support.
> 
> What I mean by server extension, is when you do 'xdpyinfo' and
> it lists the extensions. DPS is not one of those extensions.
> 
> Having checked if there's an agent. Yes there is. You need to
> get the dgs sources. Just goto http://rpmfind.net and whack in
> 'dgs'. Now this little program provides the dpsnx.agent program
> which does the equivalent to a server side DPS extension, and
> uses our client side libraries.
> 
> As for cygwin.cf there's a BuildDPS NO which doesn't mean an
> awful lot as nothing uses 'BuildDPS' it's meaningless and should
> be removed.
> 
> Alan.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 06:10:35AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> > Ummm,
> > 
> > Excuse me but you are wrong.  If you care to read
> > http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/RELNOTES2.html you will notice the line
> that
> > says:
> > -initial DPS extension support
> > If you still doubt me, then check out the xfree cvs repository:
> > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/dpstk/ or
> > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/dps/
> > 
> > Now the $40K question is, why isn't this library being built in the
> cygwin
> > distro?  Probably no one has attempted to do so, but I'm sure harold
> can
> > tell you what changes to your hosts.dep are necessary to attempt to
> build
> > it, should you decide to embark on the journey to build support in to
> your
> > xfree.
> > 
> > In fact this extension has been available for use since 4.0.3, IIRC.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Nicholas
> > --- Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 04:00:51 +0800, Zechy Wong wrote:
> > > > Hi, something happened when I tried to run texteroids.
> > > > An X window was open, and when I ran texteroids a black box
> > > > appeared briefly before disappearing.  These are the messages I
> got:
> > > > 
> > > > %% DPS Client Library Warning:
> > > >    Auto-launching DPS NX agent.
> > > > %% DPS Client Library Warning:
> > > >    FAILED to auto-launch:
> > > >     dpsnx.agent
> > > > 
> > > > texteroids: DPS is not available.
> > > > You need an X server with the DPS extension, or a DPS NX agent.
> > > > 
> > > > Wonder if anyone could help?
> > > 
> > > That's the Adobe Display PostScript extension. It's not open source
> > > so the server extension isn't in Cygwin/XFree86.
> > > 
> > > Basically. Tough. You can't run that app on this Xserver.
> > > 
> > > I know the Solaris Xsun server's have, but we don't.
> > > 
> > > Alan.
> > 


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