[PROTOCOL][General][Misc] Re: Protocol Changes (was: Zoom / Scaling in VNC)

[Jonathan Morton]

>
>There appears to be a fundamental tradeoff between simplicity and
>flexibility.  Adding real flexibility to the protocol for future
>features and settings will almost certainly cost something in the
>way of complexity of negotiations.  My vote is to sacrifice the
>simplicity at this juncture to obtain the flexibility and robustness
>afforded by dynamic feature negotiation.
>

Might I make a further suggestion, namely that servers should, where
possible, retain compatibility with the current v3.3 protocol so that our
existing user-base can perform a smooth upgrade...  this is less of an
issue for clients but would be desirable at that end as well.

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
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uni-mail: j.d.morton "at" lancaster.ac.uk

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