Hello fredvs, you wrote on Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:56:29 -0700 (MST):
> > Ok, then it's understandable. This version will then be limited to this > > specific version of libX11. ... > X11.org project is dead, there is absolutely no plan for a new major > release. Not even small corrections, you're certain? > Even if there will be a fix, this will be on a minor release, and the > soname can deal with that. And what about the successor(s)? At least Wayland - which isn't even ready for deploying - provides translation libraries, and these might evolve in time, maybe in some way that needs to be taken into account. But then, this might not be really soon. > Take a other example: library openssl they recently release libssl.so.1.1, > the previous version was libssl.so.1.0.2. Yes, I did realize that both versions exist in parallel, and there's a large number of programs still requiring the old version. With the coexisting versions, there's time to gradually change the code without haste. > And all your applications will be unusable, you have to recompile all with > fpc 3.2.0 that have updated the code for libssl.so.1.1. Fine, that's the way it should be done, I think. A mere recompile isn't such a great deal, after all. > It is not the right way because if you install libssl.so.1.1., usually the > old libssl.so.1.0.2 is still in the distro. Why do you think so? AFAIK, it is _meant_ to be handled in such a way. But this is NOT the same situation as with X11. Openssl still evolves, while the X11 people seem to be tired an discouraged about its future and about the current development. They seem to be ready to give up and let it die, even though there's nothing around that could completely take over the task. As I see it, the alternative - and there's only one visible by now, Wayland - is by no means reaady yet. It will probabely take another few years until it's really viable, similar to systemd (which comes from the same people, AFAIK) that took around a decade and still has quite a few quirks. -- -- (Weitergabe von Adressdaten, Telefonnummern u.ä. ohne Zustimmung nicht gestattet, ebenso Zusendung von Werbung oder ähnlichem) ----------------------------------------------------------- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, S. Schicktanz ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
