>Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:54:56 +0300 >From: "Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-MS/Helsinki)" <tiago.vigna...@nokia.com> >User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) >Reply-To: tiago.vigna...@nokia.com >Sender: xorg-devel-bounces+pao=ascent....@lists.x.org > >On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:50:02PM +0200, ext Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-MS/Helsinki) wrote: >> > The whole point to create a consistent protocol is the life time that it >> > will >> > last. Right now I don't see any consistency between X applications that I'm >> > building today with the ones we had in the last decade. I cannot run both >> > in >> > the same X server. I even doubt I can use today's X app in the upcoming 2 >> > or >> > 3 years server. >> >> Then you have horribly broken your X server - we are still running 20 year >> old >> apps on Xorg here, in modern GNOME & Compiz desktops alongside brand new >> apps. > >20 years old *core* apps, i.e., using the core protocol. I can run those here >because MeeGo's server stills compliant with X11 protocol. > >But hey, why do we care about these very old apps being compliant with todays >server? Who in fact really uses those?
I really hope that you are indulging in sarcasm, here. We have customers all over the world that are using our "very old" applications for mission-critical operations. Well, the applications themselves are not "very old", but they have grown up over the past 25 years based on our /stable/ infrastructure quite happily using the core protocol with no extensions. I expect them to continue to run for years to come. "Old" does not always imply inferior. - Patrick _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel