X and DPS

Juliusz Chroboczek

   <jch@freedesktop.org>

   27 February 2001, updated 30 October 2006
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   Notice of Obsolescence and Removal from X.Org Releases

   Updated by Jim Gettys and Juliusz Chroboczek.

Notice of Obsolescence and Removal from X.Org Releases

   DPS is now obsolete.

   At the time when I started this project, there was no decent
   rendering interface for X11 other than DPS.

   Since then, there has been a large amount of work on a simple
   and clean X server extension, Xrender, which provides the basis
   for just such an interface.

   Rendering libraries that are being built above Xrender include
   Xft, a font rendering library built on FreeType; Cairo, a
   geometry rendering library that provides PostScript-like
   rendering primitives but with from-the-ground support for
   Porter-Duff compositing (transparency); Pango, a high-level
   typesetting library.

   If your application uses DPS, please consider porting it to the
   above libraries. See the DPS extension site for more details

   The client-side DPS software was included and built by default
   (except as noted below) in the X.Org X11R6.8 release series.
   The client-side software was included, but not built unless
   specifically configured by the builder, in the X.Org X11R6.9
   release series. The client-side DPS software is no longer
   included in X11R7.0 or later releases.

   The server-side software is not included in any X.Org release
   for licensing reasons; the code is still available from the DPS
   extension site; it is not known whether it still compiles.
