anselm once got persuaded to make wmii a 9p server and scripts would control much functionality via some 9p client script. then he dumped all such ideas and concentrated on "single-host" software as he describes above. reasons are probably that networking and thus client/server stuff is difficult on lunix without native 9p support. wmii resulted in yet another newly written library just for that, which people perceived as crude add-ons to lunix. and generally every abstraction has trade-offs. dwm seems to be the xorg-only tradeoff.
On 7/1/13, Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 June 2013 10:27, oneofthem <oneoft...@lavabit.com> wrote: >> Why doesn't any of the suckless software use a client-server model? > > There are very limited use cases for the client/server model. Most of > them involve multi-system communication. The client/server approach > makes only limited sense in a single host world. > > Generally speaking, the client/server model requires some general > purpose "server", which suckless rarely focusses. suckless software > projects are mainly special purpose, hence the lack of applicability. > > Hope this gives you some idea, why there is nearly no client/server > software on suckless.org, if you neglect that we have git a bunch of > X11 clients... > > Best regards, > Anselm > >
