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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:39:25 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE
Message-ID:  <20060719083925.GA43701@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060719063206.GA3198@soaustin.net>
References:  <200607130024.18047.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <44B740A5.6050709@FreeBSD.org> <200607141300.43547.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <86mzb6d7gl.fsf@xps.des.no> <20060719063206.GA3198@soaustin.net>

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On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:32:06AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 09:43:54PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > This makes no sense at all, since X.org is (by definition) X11R7.
>=20
> They changed the protocol?  I thought that was what the suffix was
> originally for.


No, not really.  The suffix is mainly just a revision number for the code
base.  The (major) version number for the protocol is the '11' part, which
has not been changed for nearly 20 years now.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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