Re: request for volunteers: xfree86 woody, xfree86 sarge, and xorg-x11 uploaders
On Tue, 2005-26-04 at 11:28 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
>
> The curious thing here with regard to Xprint, is that upstream has been
> holding discussions with other X.org hackers over whether Xprint runs
> best as a stand-alone server, or whether a unified print+display server
> is a better idea. There are 3 alternatives:
> 1) separate servers (the current situation)
> 2) unified server run separate on different displays (one for video, one for print)
> 3) unified server, just the one running which handles both video and print requests.
>
> It's not clear yet which version X.org will end up with. Version 2
> kind of makes sense to me, sharing as much code as possible between the
> different kinds of server. But Version 3 is being considered favourably.
... by the Xprint folks? I have yet to see anybody else who thinks it's
a good idea. Then again, about the same is true for Xprint in general...
PS: I like David's roadmap in general.
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