Alan Cox wrote:
To our much dismay we have recently found after attempting to install
new Linux boxes that these extensions no longer appear to be available.
PEX was dropped in what was it 2004, so six years ago... taken you a
while to notice and it was dropped because nobody could actually find a
single user of it. By the time PEX stuff ever approached any real
implementation OpenGL had buried it because of the need for things like
texture mapping.
But then if you wanted people to believe you were genuine you wouldn't I
susppect be posting from what the analysis tools say is a new google
account and without naming the company. You'd have approached X.org as a
company through management and had a rational discussion about the best
way to support the extensiosn you need (or had that discussion with your
Linux vendor) and spent a lot less by making sure the commercial
justification was there for someone to support it.
Still if you'd rather rewrite all your code, pay Microsoft zillions and
not pay a consultant to do the updating on the modules you need for
resubmission (or even pay an undergrad minimum wage to knock you off a
package of an old build) don't let me stop you ;)
Alan
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Ok, indeed. We dont really use PEX that much, more into OpenGL these
days so its not important. I certainly wouldnt ask a lot of effort to
support it. Only if it could be re-enabled with simply adding it back
into the compile process would i suggest that be considered.
I would say the same about the other extensions. if it requires a lot of
major work to get those working again, okay, i can understand that, no
problem, i would not ask you to commit such an effort. But to just
remove something because "we dont like how that looks there", which is
working fine however and in a useable state, does not make a lot of
sense. Why not just leave it in? "We dont like how something works", or
"we dont *think* anyone is using this", are not good reasons to remove
support. There would have to be a severe problem with the code, broken
code, that would necessitate a extension being disabled. So of these
disabled, removed extensions. How many of these are disabled as a result
of actual broken code, vs, how many are disabled because, "we don't like
how it looks"?
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