>>>>> "GP" == Geruva Publications <a...@geruva.com> writes:
GP> I am looking at the adaptation of a fairly sizable software package to a GP> more modern (Linux) environment. The package in it's present state is GP> configured to use X for graphics, but it appears to date from about 1992. The biggest hurdles I've run into with old X apps are apps which only support pseudocolor visuals and ones which require backing store and save under. The porting effort for the former shouldn't be too bad. I can't guess for the latter though; I didn't have access to the src. The best I was able to do was an old distribution on old hardware. (~2001 hardware and distribution was old enough.) Also remember to install whichever server-side fonts the app wants. Most current distributions install only a very minimal set by default. Switching to user-side fonts will take some effort -- and perhaps should be done by way of switching to a more-recent toolkil -- but may pay off in the future. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
