Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed May 21 13:18:20 UTC 2008


Once upon a time, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> said:
> It's all about interfaces, which are what permit programs to work 
> together at all.  They are contracts among cooperating programmers that 
> when changed break everyone else's work and components. Changing an 
> interface generally sucks, but shipping a freshly changed interface 
> without publishing the new definition and giving cooperating entities 
> time to re-do their work to match sucks even more.

Yeah, because you know, Fedora and X.org keep everything in hiding and
never let any bits out until they are released.  Also, they never tell
anyone what they are doing.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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