[squeak-dev] X Server implementation for Squeak
Douglas Brebner
kirtai+st at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 16:39:20 UTC 2021
On 07/04/2021 17:06, Thiede, Christoph wrote:
>
> This was very interesting, thanks for all the impressions! I don't
> think I will write an X11 server for Squeak these days if it's so
> complicated. But still, this could be an exciting project for someone
> or somewhen else ... :-)
>
>
> > Squeak hosts already have X display server software, so there is no
> incentive to build one for Squeak. Squeak makes more sense as a
> Xclient than an Xserver.
>
>
> It depends on your perspective. You could either say "Squeak is one of
> many applications on your computer", then an Xclient makes much more
> sense, of course. But you can also consider Squeak as a separate
> operating system that only requires an outer OS "for compatibility
> reasons", and from this PoV, it would be very useful to include
> applications from the outside into your image. Thankfully, with
> Squeak, we have a system that does not require you to decide on one of
> both perspectives. :-)
>
On a somewhat belated note, the xcb project has descriptions of the X11
protocols in XML format, which may make it significantly easier to
create an X server.
https://xcb.freedesktop.org/
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