On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:34:38PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > I am not totally convinced. If one small package is updated that is > > depended on by 10 other package that in turn are depended on by a like > > number of other packages, what has been really gained by breaking > > everything into small bits? They may be easier to maintain; however > > the impact on updating the system seems like it would be minimal. > > No. As long as the communication interface between modules (whether > it be an API or something else) doesn't change, it's perfectly possible > to update a single module without updating anything else.
"as long as" is an assumption which I haven't seen any evidence that xorg developers are willing to warrant. fwiw, they changed interface in the Xaw library a couple of years ago, which required some a change to xterm. Absent any evidence that they're going to maintain stable interfaces, this is just an assumption. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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