On Sep 26, 2013, at 01:26 49, Andy Sayler wrote: > There is also the fact that X is on it's way out. Maintaining support for QT3 > is one thing, but maintaining support for the entire X stack once the world > has moved on to Wayland and/or Mir over the course of the next few years will > likely become untenable.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, "rumors of X11's death have been greatly exaggerated". X11 is older than Linux itself; I don't know how many man-hours of coding have gone into X11-based applications over the past quarter-century, but the number must range in the millions. Sure, lots of new work will get done using those new stacks, but I expect robust X11 support will continue to exist long after I'm pushing up daisies in the churchyard. Exhibit One: Apple, a company that is (in)famous for failing to support technologies not invented or acquired by themselves (just ask Adobe Systems). Yet OS X continues to offer support for X11. And it's very full-featured support too -- remote clients, multiple screens, all work just like any veteran X11 hacker would expect. That's the power of economics working through an installed applications base. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen | | that doesn't do anything for you. | | -- Ken Thompson | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
