Whatever happened to Wayland?
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sun Oct 21 21:51:36 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
X is a protocol not a codebase. You can write a new X server without
using any existing code. The protocol can be extended and the extensions
can do much. There are however some deeply wired assumptions that may one
day break - one example usually quoted is the co-ordinate range of the
display.
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