Whatever happened to Wayland?

Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com
Sun Oct 21 17:26:24 UTC 2012


On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:05:36 +0200 Patrick Lists
<fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 10/21/2012 06:59 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> [snip]
> > I have not been following this closely, but it sure looks interesting.
> >
> > What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland?
> 
> I'm not a developer but my guess is that X's 25 year old codebase is 
> dragging along a tremendous amount of dead/unused/legacy code while 
> Wayland is just a couple of years old and does not have that baggage. 

I wonder if a safer approach were to just look at and drop
such code within the project. I guess I worry that this might break an
established setup that has stood the test of time....but then it is
harder to have maintainers than developers (not much fun in the first
set of tasks).

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