Re: [Qemu-devel] Sensible VNC encodings

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
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> On Wed, 21 May 2008, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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>> My experiance with libvncserver has not been at all pleasant, finding it 
>> to be seriously crash happy and near impossible to debug, particuarly 
>> with its multithread code. We used to use it in Xen for the paravirt 
>> framebuffer server but because of its unreliability, libvncserver was 
>> ripped out and now Xen hooks into the QEMU VNC server code instead.
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> Of course, you are free to do what you want to do.  But I have to wonder 
> why I, the maintainer of LibVNCServer, did not know a _thing_ about this 
> before you wrote this, and you did not even direct that mail to me.  Seems 
> you were not serious about wanting these bugs fixed.
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You should have as I've told you this repeatedly.  I wrote the original 
vncfb (and this was *after* having written the QEMU VNC server) that 
used libvncserver.  Our experiences with it have been very unpleasant.  
The update regions are too big making mouse movement very slow.  The 
locking is terribly incorrect.  The problem with libvncserver is it's 
not an actual library.  You took the standalone VNC server and attempted 
to fit it into a library--but it was never designed for that.

You forked RealVNC, made a crappy library out of it, and now are 
complaining here because people aren't flocking to your forked copy of 
RealVNC.  Please, stop trolling qemu-devel about this and stop sending 
me private flames about it.  This issue was pointless to discuss years ago.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Sheesh,
> Dscho
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