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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:41:24 -0400
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE
Message-ID:  <AB06BE40-4FBF-4D75-B495-24CEDB9452F4@ece.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060719083925.GA43701@owl.midgard.homeip.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> <20060719083925.GA43701@owl.midgard.homeip.net>

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On Jul 19, 2006, at 4:39 , Erik Trulsson wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> 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 =20
> the code
> base.  The (major) version number for the protocol is the '11' =20
> part, which
> has not been changed for nearly 20 years now.

...unless you count a change at layer 9...

--=20
brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      =20
allbery@kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  =20
allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      =20
KF8NH






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