Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > Nobody removes extensions. Not ones that are widely used, but we have dropped many extensions over the years that didn't work out, never got well adopted, or just outlived their usefulness - PEX, XIE, XPrint, EVI, AppGroup, EVI, MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD, TOG-CUP, XTrap, XFree86-Misc, XEvIE, etc.
This is why applications should check for extensions and fall back safely when they're not present - not just to support running on older servers or even the rarely seen server based on someone else's sources (much more prevalent in the past world of proprietary Unix vendor X servers, before everyone ended up shipping the mostly unmodified Xorg server), but to support running on future servers once an extension passes beyond its useful life, or even on modern X servers that someone compiled for their cell phone with tons of --disable flags to remove extensions commonly found on desktops. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ 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