From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 19 08:41:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1785E16A4DA; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:41:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from bache.ece.cmu.edu (BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.129.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC8843D53; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:41:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix, from userid 953) id 44F509B; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:41:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.9.204.128] (dsl093-061-215.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.61.215]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62DD042; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:41:27 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:41:24 -0400 To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on bache.ece.cmu.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 Cc: Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:41:36 -0000 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