Re: Linux vs Windows
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 01:22:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 11:07, David Z Maze wrote:
> > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> >
> > > Thus, you use XFree v4.x in svga mode, or v3.3.6 and the drivers for
> > > your card, and that limits the amount of new GUI apps you can use w/o
> > > backporting or recompiling.
> > >
> > > Even fvwm 2.2 in sarge is compiled against XFree 4.1, so it would
> > > have to be recompiled for XFree 3.3.6.
> >
> > This isn't at all the case. Just because you're using an X server
> > from XFree86 3.3.6, you can still use local X clients compiled against
> > any version of the X libraries. There's no particular requirement
> > that you even use XFree86 or even Xlib, just so long as you have
> > something speaking the right (extremely stable; X11R6 is around a
> > decade old now) wire protocol.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Still, if you do "apt-cache show fvwm", you'll see that it depends
> on "xlibs (>> 4.1.0)". Maybe my understanding of Debian is all wrong,
> but that tells me that if fvwm & XFree are on the same box, and you're
> using apt-get/dpkg to manage the software, it will balk if you try
> to install pre-compiled fvwm against pre-compiled XFree 3.3.6
xlibs is client-side. It doesn't care what version the X server is (and
vice versa).
Frank
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