Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:13:11 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila@gmail.com>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, linimon@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vote: making wayland=on default (also posted to ports@) Message-ID: <20171221171311.1db32238@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <20171221160005.GA2704@lonesome.com> References: <CAECmPwsN15WxSuXynto=RxTyztQdUjU5vaR6Y%2BCEkqDNW3_5Rg@mail.gmail.com> <20171220132717.0eb5777d@ernst.home> <CAECmPwsBTaM=hTt46r7h7ZvWEtpqDRe-MKWxQFAAR6jd%2BYkpMw@mail.gmail.com> <20171220180106.0224107c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <0cadf450-ce6b-f9bc-bdbd-99f89c4dec6f@unrelenting.technology> <20171221113800.4b3acf10@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <CABHD1wQfD5pAsr-u=a2BgrRcYW4y%2BcvvnW2Bp1tmL-d5%2BQZsJA@mail.gmail.com> <20171221164635.7a348ad0@ernst.home> <20171221160005.GA2704@lonesome.com>
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:00:05 -0600 Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 04:46:35PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > If the eventual goal is to eliminate pure X11 and only offer the crap > > being put into the Linux kernel, then there will be lots of unhappy > > campers. > > The question here is about upstream support. If all the X11 developers > switch to using Wayland, at some point X11 will bitrot. > Strictly speaking, they aren't developing X11. That's done by Xorg. If you mean application developers, then you're probably right. As unfortunate as it may be, to most of them all the world is Linux. As long as there is some version of Xorg which works I'll be happy. I don't need to use the latest and greatest version of some utility which has a few new bells and whistles which depend on Wayland. > And our own X11 volunteers are overwhelmed as it is. > This is true. -- Gary Jennejohn
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