Re: Move X definition to IETF?

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:24:56PM +0000, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:11, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > This might be, but the protocol is a very high barrier for new
> > > developers to experiment with how the X11 windowing system works and
> > > interacts with applications.
> > 
> > Only if you are using prehistoric toolkits
> 
> What if you want to experiment with things that are very difficult with
> the current toolkits, and the current protocol? Eg. nice animations, as
> Havoc described in
> http://xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000590.html ?
> 
> All I'm saying is that discouraging people to break the protocol is
> discouraging people from experimenting.

Back compat is a fact of life for any real-world-useful solution,
whether it's done via protocol or shared lib ABI. Real life sucks
sometimes.

But you can break either the protocol or the ABI if you're just
experimenting. 

Havoc