Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com>
>> But every app we port ourselves gives us more insight into what is
>> needed to port apps, and figure out how to make it easier for
>> authors/maintainers of the much more complicated apps out there in
>> the rest of the world.
I also should have mentioned that each app ported is another test case
for xcb to help us find/fix bugs, and another bit of sample code for
others to reference.
> On the other hand, it is also beneficial to leave some of the core
> applications use libX11 to make sure it doesn't suffer too much
> bitrot.
Well, as noted in my original list, I see a lot that just don't make
sense to port or aren't worth the effort, like most of the libXaw programs,
so I'm sure there will be plenty around for a while. So far the ones
we've ported (x*info / xls* type apps) are atypical clients, not really
serving as good examples/tests of what a normal app does (none of them
even open a window for starters).
And the specific test suite apps (rendercheck, x11perf, XTS) it makes
sense to explicitly keep libX11 code around, even if we make it a
build time configuration, so that we can continue to use it to test
libX11.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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