lack of standardization on X11

[Mikhail Gusarov]

Twas brillig at 20:44:26 18.08.2010 UTC+03 when tiago.vignatti at nokia.com 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.

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