Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-07-01 Thread hiro
anselm once got persuaded to make wmii a 9p server and scripts would control much functionality via some 9p client script. then he dumped all such ideas and concentrated on "single-host" software as he describes above. reasons are probably that networking and thus client/server stuff is difficult o

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-07-01 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 30 June 2013 10:27, oneofthem wrote: > Why doesn't any of the suckless software use a client-server model? There are very limited use cases for the client/server model. Most of them involve multi-system communication. The client/server approach makes only limited sense in a single host world.

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Calvin Morrison
hiro, did you drink your coffee before it was cool? Sincerely, Calvin Morrison On 30 June 2013 17:59, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And then stop those stupid questions without any intro‐ >> duction or greeting. You are disrespectuful and should not use other >> people’s time in such a

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread hiro
> And then stop those stupid questions without any intro‐ > duction or greeting. You are disrespectuful and should not use other > people’s time in such a parasitic way. what about your tasteless hipster justification?

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Galos, David
> In short, would you still hate X11 if someone went and streamlined both > protocol and implementation? If so, why? Maybe not, but that's changing both what it is, and what it does. It would be a fundamentally different program; how is anyone supposed to speculate on that? > If the argument is

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Andrew Hills
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:05:41 +0200 Markus Wichmann wrote: > I can see, that Xorg is a very complex implementation of the X11 > protocol, and that that protocoll is not very good, seeing as how it > was extended several times, the extensions oftentimes being > incompatible with each other (e.g. Xin

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Markus Wichmann
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:27:36AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Greetings. > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:27:36 +0200 oneofthem wrote: > > Why doesn't any of the suckless software use a client-server model? > > Learn about X11. And then stop those stupid questions without any intro‐ > duction o

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Daniel Bryan
Yes, there aren't enough Patterns in suckless software. Why doesn't st use a client server model? Why doesn't the sbase implementation of split? Perhaps dwm should follow a distributed pub-sub pattern over COM for window control. On 30/06/2013 6:30 PM, "Christoph Lohmann" <2...@r-36.net> wrote: >

Re: [dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:27:36 +0200 oneofthem wrote: > Why doesn't any of the suckless software use a client-server model? Learn about X11. And then stop those stupid questions without any intro‐ duction or greeting. You are disrespectuful and should not use other people’s time in

[dev] client-server model

2013-06-30 Thread oneofthem
Why doesn't any of the suckless software use a client-server model?