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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