X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XServer-Clear-Out-Old-Compilers

by WhyUVoteGarbage • 2 years ago

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lokar• 2 years ago

Auto play video ad with sound? Seriously?

purerandomness• 2 years ago

You probably forgot that you accidentally disabled your ad blocker?

Modified3019• 2 years ago

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Or if on mobile, it is well worth it to look up adblock options for the browser you use.

Jasper_• 2 years ago

The context here is that someone new randomly showed up on the xorg-devel mailing list, and started asking a ton of questions about the codebase, which has lead to a couple of cleanups. I wouldn't read too much into it.

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2024-February/thread...

jcranmer5• 2 years ago

I was going to say the name was somehow familiar. Then I went searching through the Mozilla bug tracker and found this comment: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308#c90.

bravura• 2 years ago

I understand your frustration with the heady enthusiasm of the poster but:

Isn’t it true that Thunderbird sixteen years later still lacks complete and first-class maildir support?

ahi• 2 years ago

https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-asks-covid-vaccin...

kelnos7• 2 years ago

Oh man, he'd been on our (Xfce) mailing list for a while, sending a ton of merge requests for various cleanups to our window manager and other components. While I wouldn't say what he was doing was completely useless, it was generally not super helpful, didn't really need to be done, and mainly just caused code churn. On my less charitable days it felt like he was just trying to get his name out there and into the commit history of a lot of projects, but the time and effort he was spending was probably too much if that was the motivation.

Several of his MRs ended up becoming out of date and full of merge conflicts because of other work that was being done, and it just seemed like a waste of time to me.

Someone downthread posted a link where Linus Torvalds himself excoriates this guy for posting anti-vaxxer nonsense to the lkml. That... really takes the cake.

pests• 2 years ago

I like this one

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2024-February/059137...

Huge block of code just sitting around for 16 years completely unused.

jraph2• 2 years ago

Does someone know why this person would care about dead code in X?

AlienRobot• 2 years ago

Maybe he really, really, REALLY doesn't want to switch to Wayland.

akira2501• 2 years ago

outside of the XWayland scope given the diminishing developer interest and lots of talk but little action by those anti-Wayland holdouts in the community to actually contribute to X.Org Server development.

I don't know.. maybe they're actually rising to this "challenge."

Although, I've never understood why the presence of Wayland means X.Org needs to disappear. To me it seems part of our modern churlish desktop software cult that is perennially annoyed that their new systems, while slightly more visually appealing, have actually removed more useful features than they have added and fail to be a compelling upgrade on their own.

So, instead of making anything better, they focus on destroying what already exists.

sdan• 2 years ago

Unrelated but that looks almost like Twitter took this logo and flipped it horizontally

jbverschoor3• 2 years ago

X is a server for every client app

CyberDildonics• 2 years ago

Did you mean to reply somewhere else? This doesn't seem to relate to what they said.

TheRealPomax2• 2 years ago

When in reality they just went "oh hey, double struck mathematical operators? Cool", typed "&1D54F;"[1], scrolled through their font picker, and then sent the invoice.

[1] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1D54F/index.ht...

lenerdenator• 2 years ago

What're the odds that invoice has been paid?

happytiger2• 2 years ago

It truly is the most mid, uninspired corporate logo I’ve seen in a while.

ok1234562• 2 years ago

That Sun C++ compiler was responsible for many people dropping out at my school.

jraph2• 2 years ago

How so?

ok1234562• 2 years ago

Lack of standards compliance, bugs, and generally unhelpful compilation error reporting. It was a nightmare for the OOP class, which used more compiler features. Couple that with undergraduate sophomores and juniors trying to do things at the last moment, and you'll have a lot of former CS majors.

aitchnyu• 2 years ago

I learned C++ with GCC cli in Linux in high school 2007, in Kerala, India. My college had Sun thin client desktop with an extremely outdated GCC so I was helping when teachers were stuck helping. Our college system is such that you take a fixed syllabus for 4 years so people get daunted at first programming subject and nurse their coping mechanisms for 3 years.

X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers

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