Re: [Libvncserver-common] New release of libvncserver

[Otavio S. <ot...@de...>]

Johannes Schindelin <Joh...@gm...> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>
>> "Karl J. Runge" <ru...@ka...> writes:
>> 
>> > BTW, I think some of the things Dscho and I did in the past year was 
>> > to achieve is more of a decoupling of x11vnc from LibVNCServer (that 
>> > is why we added --with-system-libvncserver to configure, etc).  
>> > Because of this (for cosmetic reasons I guess) I suggest releasing 
>> > LibVNCServer as version 0.9.2 or 1.0 and not track the x11vnc version 
>> > anymore.
>> 
>> I'd support the split up of both also because it seems more logical. In 
>> vendors there're usually two source packages (one for libvncserver and 
>> another to x11vnc) and it would make vendors life easier.
>
> We discussed this IIRC, and came to the conclusion that having two 
> separate downloadable packages makes sense, as this is user-visible, but 
> that it does not make sense to split up the projects, as they benefit too 
> much from each other.

So what is the future direction about it?

Personally I see no point it having it source included together with
x11vnc and makes more sense to me to do two releases when needed. One
for the library and another for the application itself. How is it
going to be done from now on?

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