AltME: R3 Building and Porting

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Maxim
AGG seems much faster than Cairo to me.  though Cairo has been maintained for longer, so it may have new features not available in AGG

Kaj
It was. Cairo became a lot faster lately, so I don't know how they compare now
I always "love" how people get angry over their project called slow, and then ten years later they gloat over making it much faster
Andreas
TomBon: there's even 4 major branches at the moment:
- reboltech (aka mainline, rebol/rebol)
- rebolsource (aka community, rebolsource/r3)
- saphirion (saphirion/saphir)
- atronix (zsx/r3)
No quick overview matrix, unfortunately. Probably worth doing. Or maybe wait for the Rebol Alliance stuff :)
Andreas
The gist of it, feature-wise:
- reboltech/mainline: baseline
- rebolsource/community: mainline + 64-bit
- saphirion: community + https + win32 view + bugfixes
- atronix: saphirion + linux view + udp + linux CALL + ffi + encap + more bugfixes
Another factor is immediate platform support:
- mainline and community come with a relatively large set of build target platforms
- saphirion currently has immediate build scripts for the big three (linux, osx, win32) and android
- atronix currently has immediate build scripts for linux and win32
Ah yes, of course: in the features above, add "android view" to saphirion:
append saphirion android-view
Kaj
Were those sources included?
Andreas
The sources to the Android View port have not been released so far, as far as I'm aware.
(not publicly)
Kaj
Right, so the feature is not really there
Andreas
There's a working APK you can download.
If that's sufficient or not for one to consider the feature to be there, is a personal decision.
Kaj
Will they be in the Alliance version?
Andreas
(I can't answer that; don't know.)
Andreas
(Also: any omissions in the above list are purely due to me being forgetful or unaware. "rebolsource" is the only thing I can speak of with authority; the rest is purely my personal perspective. No misrepresentation of any of the above branches and their associated parties intended.)
Kaj
It seems correct to me
Josh
Atronix has a complete serial implementation as well.
Andreas
Thanks Josh; a big part of it due to your diligent work or integrating Carl's work. Shixin/Atronix extended it to Win32 and Linux support, if I'm not mistaken, right?
Josh
I extended Carl's posix work to Windows and Shixin added all the other features and changed it to asynchronous
and bugfixed
Kaj
Carl's implementation wasn't asynchronous?

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