Re: [boost] Re: RE: A preliminary proposal: AGG project

From: Douglas Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-06 15:35:44

On Monday 06 May 2002 12:22 pm, you wrote:
> > this straight out of the box without requiring passive onlookers to
> > spend another week coding just to fill in the blanks because believe
> > me, people won't bother, in particular, typical Joe who only wants to
> > draw some nice polygons and text.
>
> Completely agree. But as I said I don't have a possibility to actually test
> it on different platforms. All I have is Win32 and GCC under Cygwin.
> Besides, due to the lack of time (and experience with BOOST)
> it's hard to me to invent platform independent graphic I/O concepts.
> Actually, SDL seems to be good enough for demonstration purposes
> and I will definitely try it.
> But it's pure C and GPLed.

It's LGPL'd, so a Boost library could link against SDL (without including SDL 
as part of Boost).

        Doug