[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New Connection Dialog for Win32

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raahul Kumar writes:
 > 
 > --- Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > <snip>
 > 
 > > Yes, gdk is slow on windows. The problem is that gdk is almost a copy
 > > of the X11 drawing API. Windows has different drawing primitives.
 > > One example:
 > > gdk_gc_set_mask is implemented by dividing the mask into
 > > rectangles. These rectangles were added as a clip rect to the system.
 > > 
 > 
 > I read in the recent Alan Cox interview on Slashdot, that Microsoft has 
 > changed
 > the licensing terms of the system libraries. Apparently open source software 
 > is
 > no longer allowed to link to windows libraries. Any comments?

Ok, let's forbid people to use the windows versions with anything else
than wine. ;-)

I have never heard about that interview. Can you give me a link,
please?

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade