Uros Nedic wrote:
For example, let we observe Xorg consolidation, based on X Window System.
This source code tree evolved over the time in such different ways that
now it comes to the critical point where it couldn't be fixed anymore.
I have no idea why you think X can't be fixed anymore - we're making
improvements to X all the time - X has improved far more in the last
few years than it did in the 10 years previous.
What we need? We need some Senior Developers conference to start to think
how to make X Window System more comfortable for programmers,
X.Org made a huge investment of time here in past years working on this
- converting from the little used imake to the widely used GNU autoconf
& automake, breaking the build from one giant tree into hundreds of
individual modules, so that a developer who wants to build a new ATI
driver module doesn't have to build all the libraries, clients & fonts
in the process. This has been part of what's brought about the
above mentioned resurgence of X.
> even if that means developing completely new Windowing System.
Many attempts to develop a completely new Window System have been
proposed. None have attracted enough developers or applications
to be more than a curiosity. A completely new window system is
a project of huge proportions, and if you're not compatible with
X, no one can run their software or use their hardware.
We need more organized architecture, well integrated yet modular,
to allow that each hardware vendor write just one object module to serve
as a driver for each Implementation of X Window System
I thought that's what we had - each hardware vendor can provide a
single .so module for their Xorg driver, such as intel_drv.so or
nvidia_drv.so - what would you change from that? Or are you
unhappy that they have to provide both Xorg & kernel driver modules
if they want to support functionality like suspend-and-resume or
3D hardware acceleration that needs kernel support?
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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