On 2010-06-29 18:37, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi, On Dienstag, 29. Juni 2010, Alastair McKinstry wrote:XGKS is a level 2C implementation of the ANSI Graphical Kernel System (GKS) for use in a Unix environment with the X Window System. It supports the Fortran language binding and a C language binding based on the 1988 draft. XGKS is used in both the CDMS2 and FERRET climate tools which are currently being packaged for Debian.What does the package do? From reading the description I have no clue. A graphical kernel? I guess thats not related to the linux kernel or if it is, how??? cheers, Holger
Ok, how about I add the paragraph:GKS is a basic graphics system for applications that produce computer generated two-dimensional pictures on line graphics or raster graphics output devices. It supports operator input and interaction by supplying basic functions for graphical input and picture segmentation and allows storage and dynamic modification of pictures. GKS is no longer under active development, but used in several existing graphical toolkits.
It is not expected that XGKS will gather any _new_ users, but factoring it out into its own
package simplifies the size and maintenance of some other packages. -- Alastair McKinstry ,<alastair@sceal.ie> ,<mckinstry@debian.org> http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist - Kenneth Boulter, Economist.