Corbin Simpson wrote: > Admittedly, I'm kind of young, but I had to go Google all the other > extensions to even get a hint of what they do. That's probably not a > good sign. :3
You will undoubtedly not be the only X developer who is younger than some of this code. Even with everything that's been dumped, X.Org still has a lot of 20-25 year old code left in it, and a lot of that is unlikely to ever go away. You can complain about the server extensions going away, but any portable, well written client always had to check if they were present and do something sane if they weren't - only in recent history has the world coalesced to just a few X server implementations, now that most of the proprietary variants of the days of the Unix wars have died out. (Really, it's mainly just the X.Org implementation (as Xorg, Xwin, Xquartz or kdrive) on almost all Unix-like systems with a desktop these days, and a few others on other systems, like the commercial options for native X servers on Microsoft Windows.) On the client side we've pretty much preserved API & ABI compatibility, even when that required major gyrations for the XCB effort - while we encouarage migration to the new XCB libraries, it will be a couple decades before libX11 fades away. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg