Re: Move X definition to IETF?

Am Dienstag, 25. März 2003 17:06 schrieb Havoc Pennington:
> 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.

Breaking a shared lib ABI happens within the context of just one computer 
while breaking a protocol affects the whole internet. On a local computer you 
can just install both versions for the time it's needed. Usualy you update 
all programs and libs on a computer at the same time. Compatibility of many 
libs under Linux has been broken and that was a good an necessary thing.

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