No? wayland is a very separate project. It is not backwards compatible with X. It will run X programs in a copy of X. Nobody is panicking anyways.
On Dec 21, 2010, at 8:27 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > The X server contains lots and lots of crufty old code going back to the > 1980s that nobody uses and nobody (including the X developers) wants to > maintain, but is required to claim to be an X server. One option is: > > 1) Move all the useful modern stuff out to the Linux kernel and separate > libraries. > 2) Make all the crufty old stuff a separate piece dynamically loaded only when > necessary. > 3) Make a new minimal library to allow all the useful stuff from X to be used > as efficiently and maintainably as possible. > > That is what the X developers are doing, and that new library is called > Wayland. > > > > So what do you think? Accurate enough? Likely to cause fewer people to > panic? > > -- > "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you > nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain > http://www.ChaosReigns.com > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
