All these forks of VNC development have been great and they show that VNC development is by no means stagnant. The issue I think is on most people's mind (or mine at least) is that we all look to AT&T as the 'pure' source of VNC and from time to time we would like AT&T to take the "best of the best" features of all the features that have been brewing out there and incorporate them into AT&T's own version. I don't think people want AT&T to go nutz and put in every feature that comes down the pike but things like Tight encoding which I think everyone agrees should be core functionality at some point should be blessed by AT&T by putting it into a future release.
Having the AT&T version somewhat current will insure that more people will contribute to VNC. If some organization wants to extent VNC now, they have to pick from all these non-official forks to base their extended functionality on. Have the AT&T branch less stale makes this less of an issue. My fear is that some people might be holding back work on VNC because they are waiting for AT&T to catch up on some functionality that they feel is missing. Another issue... The longer AT&T waits to put out another version of VNC, the harder it will be for the other forks to 'sync' to the AT&T branch if they find that is one of their goals. > AT&t may not have released a new version for a while, but that doesn't mean > VNC development in general has stopped. Take a look at tightVNC > (http://www.tightvnc.org) - while still using the base VNC structure, the > developer has added significant bandwidth-saving code. There is also a > commercial entity called Tridia that sells a branded version of VNC - > http://tridiavnc.com > > There are also other groups working on improving security in VNC, such as > the Secure VNC project - http://securevnc.sourceforge.net , and also ZVNC > (integrated Zebedee tunneling software) - URL escapes me. > > Also, various people are discussing improving the underlying RFB protocol > that VNC uses. > > Yes, AT&T hasn't released a new version for a while (Wez mentioned he was > writing his graduate thesis). However, this most certainly does not mean VNC > development has stopped. Due to the Open Source nature of VNC, anyone who > has something to contribute most certainly can. > > Glenn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anouk Kuiling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 4:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: AT&T > > > Why is AT&T now stopped with made new versions of VNC? > > VNC is latest produced in March 2001. The latest version is 3.3.3 R9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
