Are svgalib primitives a good idea?

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On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 05:40:22PM +0000, Paul Dufresne wrote:
> Anyway, there is a need to have basic gui primitives, to make CLIM over.
> 
> Svgalib seems to be really enough low-level for not overlapping with CLIM.
> Main problem I see, is that this is for Linux only, as far as I know.

I suggest SDL (simple directmedia layer) [1]; it's portable, runs on
"Linux, Windows, BeOS, MacOS, MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS,
Solaris, IRIX, and QNX" [2] and supports at least X11, svgalib, GGI,
and aalib graphics output.

1. http://www.libsdl.org/
2. http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php?action=listentries&category=1#54

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