On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:36:20 +0000 (UTC) > Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2009-04-07, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> several mission-critical applications that has seen two and a half >>>> decades of development based on Xlib. (... with all the assumptions >>> >>> Commiserations but at least Xlib today is back compatible. Try a 25 year >>> old windows app and weep. >> >> Try a 5 year old Linux program binary on a recent OS -- and weep. > > Works beautifully if you have the libraries to hand. I test this ^^ (big assumption).
> regularly and things like the rogue binary from 1993 work nicely. The > number of interfaces we removed is tiny and all specialist "Since 1993" seems to be your message. Of course you _could_ give an informative response. ctype's changed incompatibly a couple of times (I assume that's what you mean by "specialist"). Of course that's glibc (termio's changed at least once - I recall hearing that was kernel ;-). (curious if you're planning to make remarks that distinguish you from Tuomo - so far, that's not the case) awai -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
