Linked by Rahul on Tue 4th Nov 2008 06:17 UTC
Kristian Hogsberg, Red Hat Xorg developer and the key person behind successful projects such as AIGLX, has now started working on a new project called Wayland, a tiny display server and compositing manager.
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RE[4]: yet another useless fork
by qortra on Tue 4th Nov 2008 16:39
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Member since:2005-10-05
cruft has been removed from the [X.Org] codebase.
I absolutely know that is has, and I truly am grateful for the work they've done on it. However, speaking as a software engineer, sometimes a total rewrite is required to move ahead - refactoring has its limits. Moreover, this project appears to be a complete paradigm shift from the old-style X.Org server, and that might be what is called for to solve some of the problems mentioned in the article.
RE[5]: yet another useless fork
by VistaUser on Tue 4th Nov 2008 16:44
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Member since:2008-03-08
You, sir have not read This article:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
(Or you have and disagree with it...)
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Most of the cruft has been removed from the codebase. I'm sure there's still a lot left, but the devs are keeping pace with removing unused and unnecessary components from the codebase. Just today there were half a dozen commits removing crap from the server.