Firefox Developers Still Hesitant About Using EGL Over GLX On X11 Linux

[dungeon]

So instead of finishing what they started, they shoud just throw it all out and start over, while we wait another few years?

Wayland is 10 years old, Intel switching on (partial) GL threading after 6 years, Vulkan is 2 years old and so on

Any GL and EGL included somewhat still sounds nice for year 2020, but for that next decade lets say year 2026. it sounds ancient

So why not to say _now_ we will switch to VK as default in year 2026. on its 10 year anniversary no matter what, after 5 years of development and another 5 years of testing sounds enough

I don't expect people will stop using X anyway even in the middle of next decade, because simply there is no mass culture of dropping 5 years old hardware in the world as whole . Industry would like to see that, Windows tries hard to do that with every new release but it simply does not happen, instead with evey new release there are larger leftovers - as all hardware would need to be very cheap to be able to justify & to expect that, but also with software working fine alaround As a result thus in realiity, opposite of pushing happens as people simply resist to switch to more and more broken

Well, maybe somewhere in year 2035. that XWayland should be dropped

[DanL]

Wayland is 10 years old

The 1.0 release where the API was finalized/stable is only 5 years old, so your statement is misleading. But we've had this discussion before and you're just going to spew more gibberish and smilies, so...

[carewolf]

I was about to say Qt also prefers GLX over EGL, but it does so at runtime not compile time, so it doesn't depend hard on GLX.

[dungeon]

The 1.0 release where the API was finalized/stable is only 5 years old, so your statement is misleading.

So how you count age of Linux kernel? Since some release you like or what?

Initial release of Wayland is 30. september 2008. , so don't forget to say Happy 10th B-day

[nanonyme]

I was about to say Qt also prefers GLX over EGL, but it does so at runtime not compile time, so it doesn't depend hard on GLX.

It's still stupid protectionism at this point not to go with EGL, investigate and forward bugs

[starshipeleven]

So how you count age of Linux kernel?

a kernel isn't a protocol, your comparison is invalid.

For a protocol, the age is counted from when it is actually declared stable, before that it is in development-only stages.

[dungeon]

a kernel isn't a protocol, your comparison is invalid.

So, per you "because Sun is not a Moon now global time become different"?

That reminds me on Julius Caesar pushover and year 46 BC when he established his calendar, then Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 corrected it (better to say adjusted something that was known to be inccorect to another incorrect) and renamed it Meanwhile, this same year 2018. is year 4716. for jews, year 5779. for chinese, year 7527. for serbs, etc... and so on

Do you know that pushovers of some standarisiton exists just so that people understand each other to some degree, but not all believe this standardisation is correct - even at all ?

[starshipeleven]

So, per you "because Sun is not a Moon now global time become different"?

You didn't know how age is defined for standards and protocols, now you know.

Please stop posting gibberish now.

[dungeon]

You didn't know how age is defined for standards and protocols, now you know.

Oh I know, there is no difference as both are maded by pushovers just like Ceaser pushed his calendar Today you can ask NASA, and they will tell you that was major falsificate of time in human history and that older ones where more correct as they aligh to the electromagnetic changes of the Sun

[DanL]

It's Caesar (notice the spelling) and you're still spewing gibberish. maded? Either you need a better translator or you need to work on your communication skills.