Twas brillig at 20:44:26 18.08.2010 UTC+03 when [email protected] did gyre and gimble:
VT> I don't think anyone understood... :( I do. You'd love to see core protocol including all the bits necessary for many modern applications. It's called X12. X11 core prototol is inadequate. VT> ...to name a few extensions constantly being developed: XKB, Xi, VT> Render, DRI2, RandR. Todays applications are built on the top of VT> them. Okay? Now try to port an application using these recent VT> extensions to some old server. It's impossible! And unnecessary. VT> There's no standard - we can freely add and remove extensions VT> within X11 implementation and then applications will be loosely VT> following some undefined rule, because the strict part to follow - VT> the X11 core protocol - is useless anyway. Nobody removes extensions. If old protocol is inadequate (which is major force behind adding extensions), then there is simply no way to have old server to run new shiny apps, as there is no way to implement them. -- http://fossarchy.blogspot.com/
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