Re: Development (was Re: LOGGING!!)

From: Jonathan Morton ()
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 17:11:37 EDT

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    >> I've no idea how syslog works "under the bonnet", since I have virtually
    >> zero UNIX programming experience. And yes, I think the forking process of
    >> VNC is getting more than a touch out of hand - I can count at least half a
    >> dozen WinVNC's and three Xvnc's, all based directly on the AT&T source.
    >> Someone really needs to get their head down and integrate all the features
    >> into one version for each platform, espeically if it isn't going to be much
    >> bigger than the 'standard' version.
    >
    >You're right, it would be much better to have all patches integrated in
    >the main branch. A bigger problem arises with the protocol fork's (e.g.
    >zlib compression).
    >It's very important to have an official protocol with all extensions
    >soon.

    Roll on "RFB 003.004\n"...

    >> I think we need to consider the reasons why we'd want something like this,
    >> and then try to implement it as a separate protocol. If this works out, it
    >> could be eventually integrated into VNC so that the same applications are
    >> serving/receiving both protocols at once. The other aspect to remember is
    >> that many of the decent audio-compression formats are proprietary or
    >> patented, and thus not amenable to the GPL.
    >
    >That's right, but at least ogg vorbis is available under the (L)GPL.
    >
    >
    >It would be nice to have an extension that allows 'plug-in-streams', so
    >other protocols could be tunneled, e.g. for filetransfer, sound,
    >printing and so on.

    I think that's an idea for "RFB 004.000\n"...

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