On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:22:10AM -0500, DRC wrote: > Am I the only one that thinks this is nasty and a big turn-off to > potential developers? I mean, I understand why it is done this way -- > so that Linux distributions can build VNC against the same X11 codebase > as the regular X server, but it seems like we need to support some > "default" version of Xorg and make sure that the build is painless for > that version so that developers (like me) can easily get the code up and > running. I personally don't care what version of Xorg is used. > TurboVNC was based on a very old XFree86 release. Anything is an > improvement over that.
Well, X codebases differ version from version and it's impossible to support all of them. If we decide that we would like to support huge range of platforms then we will probably stuck with XFree86 and building with the newer Xorg will be nearly impossible even for common developers. Xorg 1.5, which is the least version which is currently supported, requires reasonable new libraries and all X related things (like proto-s). So you are not able to build Xvnc on RHEL5 as you tried. We have to decide which is the oldest distro which we should support. > Am I to understand from your response that you haven't seen this > before? How do other people on this list normally build Xvnc? I don't > understand why it wouldn't be an easily reproducible process. The > README suggests building against a specific branch of Xorg (1.5), so one > would presume that the build works with that specific branch and has > been tested. It is tested and it works fine. But as I wrote above you have to have reasonably new libraries and X related things. Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
