Jack Beglinger wrote:

> > Why cann't the various folks building VNC functionality, merge
> > their efforts?

> One reason comes to mind... File transfer or NOT.  For me not, there are
> others ways.  Also there may be other functions makes one more or less
> better.   What is nice is having a choice.  It would be great that common API
> is kept, so a UltraViewer could use a RealServer.  That is for the three+
> teams to work out, so all can inter-work.

The impression I get is that whilst the originial VNC programmers
(now RealVNC) knew how to do cross-platform development. The
forks seem mostly to be by windows programmers who don't have
experience of maintaining a cross platform codebase and have only
produced windows versions. Of course, many of the improvements
in these forks are uniquely tied to windows (the video driver,
for example) and aren't suitable for other platforms. But in
doing this, I think they've broken the USP of VNC, ie the abstraction
away from the OS and the excellent cross-platform connectivity.

Just my 2p, not a flame.

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