RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE

Erik Trulsson ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Wed Jul 19 08:39:27 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:32:06AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 09:43:54PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > This makes no sense at all, since X.org is (by definition) X11R7.
> 
> They changed the protocol?  I thought that was what the suffix was
> originally for.


No, not really.  The suffix is mainly just a revision number for the code
base.  The (major) version number for the protocol is the '11' part, which
has not been changed for nearly 20 years now.



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