[Bf-committers] 2.28a release & meeting notes

[Kent Mein]

In reply to John K. Walton (walton@mrnutty.com):

The generic sort of bit is ghost.

you can basically write backends for ghost that are different,
X11, windows, cocoa, BeOS's graphics library(no clue what the name is), etc...

Think of it sort of like SDL.
the idea was basically that ghost is large enough that it could probably
stand on its own, and would hopefully get more development if it
were an external package that wasn't tied directly to blender.
(i.e. you need to download the blender source if you want to use ghost
for your project)

On the flip side of things, blender makes exensive use of ghost, and
it would take quite a bit of work to make it so you could
swap out ghost with something else.

Kent
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