Re: X Org Server is abandonware

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 03:33:58PM +1030, Tim via users wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 08:46 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> > One of the motivations for Wayland was that the X.Org was becoming
> > unmaintainable and suffered from design choices that are no longer
> > relevant.
> 
> Is it really unmaintainable, or is it that programmers just cannot be
> arsed to learn how to maintain someone else's code?
> 
> And how does one person determine that some features are no-longer
> needed?  It's quite clear that in several years of Wayland being around
> that various features needed by people using X have yet to be
> implemented.
> 
> This whole idea of "I can't work on this, let's throw it all out and
> start again" is just incompetence.  And you'll find several OS projects
> that have spent many years, repeatedly going through that process and
> never actually coming to any fruition because of it.
> 
> Don't let those people near the kernel code.

X11 is *old* and there is a lot of complexity involved, particularly
when it comes to compositing libraries. Wayland takes the X server out
of the conversation, which can improve security and efficiency, and
also makes implimentation simpler.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>
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