Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Wed May 21 13:46:26 UTC 2008


2008/5/21 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>:
> Bill Crawford wrote:
...
>> How is providing a new, shiny Xorg making Fedora "suck", please?

> It's all about interfaces, which are what permit programs to work together
> at all.  They are contracts among cooperating programmers that when changed
> break everyone else's work and components. Changing an interface generally
> sucks, but shipping a freshly changed interface without publishing the new
> definition and giving cooperating entities time to re-do their work to match
> sucks even more.

"cooperating"

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
-- roughly quoting Inigo Montoya, a.k.a. Mandy Patinkin.




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