Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

>The tradition is shit... The tradition for Linux is to have huge amounts of duplicated work to deal with insignificant and unimportant technical details that distributions refuse to agree on. It creates headaches for developers and makes it difficult to install and almost impossible for end users to maintain the software they want to use at the versions they want to have.

If i had points to give, i would give you all for the daring

ummm... don't. That is, don't even try to maintain it. Oh! many will came back complaining furiously... but there must be a tough "conscious inner voice" that simple refuses and points the correct approach. The point is that the notion of "dumping for others to maintaining it" is just WRONG. There must be very concise technical merits, and there is also LSB for this -> support it, make your case there...

What you describe is the failure of LSB. Somehow it must get out of any distros influence... or any distro simple ignorance of it... ppl must have the courage to make it "independent", make it bigger, make it better...

>It's all one big mush with a maze of inter dependencies so complex and lavish that it resists any attempt for people to map it out and document it.

And in this is why "changing" have been making things much more harder not easier... the gross mass of "independent" or semi-independent devs, finds it easier to start all over, than to try to understand some pieces of code and attach themselfs to *collaborate* on something that is already there, to make it better...

... i just can't imagine why *trowing more into the maze* in a way that the originator himself understands better, and so half documented or documented in a way those original devs understand... does any good to improve the matters...