On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Tuomo Valkonen <tuo...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-04-07, Alan Cox <a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > >> several mission-critical applications that has seen two and a half > >> decades of development based on Xlib. (... with all the assumptions > > > > Commiserations but at least Xlib today is back compatible. Try a 25 year > > old windows app and weep. > > Try a 5 year old Linux program binary on a recent OS -- and weep. Works beautifully if you have the libraries to hand. I test this regularly and things like the rogue binary from 1993 work nicely. The number of interfaces we removed is tiny and all specialist > Try the 8-year-old Windows XP, and a recent program binary -- no problems. I'm glad you are happy with Windows. I'd hate to have you on the same side... _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg