                                   X and DPS

                               Juliusz Chroboczek

                            <[1]jch@freedesktop.org>

                   27 February 2001, updated 30 October 2006

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   [2]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 [3]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 [4]the DPS extension
   site; it is not known whether it still compiles.

References

   Visible links
   1. mailto:jch@freedesktop.org
   2. file:///tmp/xmlto.OAhTBi/dps.proc#Notice_of_Obsolescence_and_Removal_from_X.Org_Releases
   3. http://dps.sourceforge.net/
   4. http://dps.sourceforge.net/
