Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-07-01 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 30 June 2013 10:27, oneofthem oneoft...@lavabit.com wrote: Why doesn't any of the suckless software use a client-server model? There are very limited use cases for the client/server model. Most of them involve multi-system communication. The client/server approach makes only limited sense in

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-07-01 Thread hiro
anselm once got persuaded to make wmii a 9p server and scripts would control much functionality via some 9p client script. then he dumped all such ideas and concentrated on single-host software as he describes above. reasons are probably that networking and thus client/server stuff is difficult on

[dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread oneofthem
Why doesn't any of the suckless software use a client-server model?

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:27:36 +0200 oneofthem oneoft...@lavabit.com wrote: Why doesn't any of the suckless software use a client-server model? Learn about X11. And then stop those stupid questions without any intro‐ duction or greeting. You are disrespectuful and should not use

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Daniel Bryan
Yes, there aren't enough Patterns in suckless software. Why doesn't st use a client server model? Why doesn't the sbase implementation of split? Perhaps dwm should follow a distributed pub-sub pattern over COM for window control. On 30/06/2013 6:30 PM, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote:

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Markus Wichmann
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:27:36AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote: Greetings. On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:27:36 +0200 oneofthem oneoft...@lavabit.com wrote: Why doesn't any of the suckless software use a client-server model? Learn about X11. And then stop those stupid questions without any

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Andrew Hills
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:05:41 +0200 Markus Wichmann nullp...@gmx.net wrote: I can see, that Xorg is a very complex implementation of the X11 protocol, and that that protocoll is not very good, seeing as how it was extended several times, the extensions oftentimes being incompatible with each

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Galos, David
In short, would you still hate X11 if someone went and streamlined both protocol and implementation? If so, why? Maybe not, but that's changing both what it is, and what it does. It would be a fundamentally different program; how is anyone supposed to speculate on that? If the argument is

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread hiro
And then stop those stupid questions without any intro‐ duction or greeting. You are disrespectuful and should not use other people’s time in such a parasitic way. what about your tasteless hipster justification?

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Calvin Morrison
hiro, did you drink your coffee before it was cool? Sincerely, Calvin Morrison On 30 June 2013 17:59, hiro 23h...@gmail.com wrote: And then stop those stupid questions without any intro‐ duction or greeting. You are disrespectuful and should not use other people’s time in such a