From 3d748ebe7d900e96670ff3d455896998dfba6191 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Rettberg
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:33:11 +0100
Subject: 5.45

---
 README.hacking | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'README.hacking')

diff --git a/README.hacking b/README.hacking
index f2958b4..09147f7 100644
--- a/README.hacking
+++ b/README.hacking
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ Requirements for inclusion with the XScreenSaver collection
     your name and the current year).  The GNU GPL is not compatible with
     the rest of XScreenSaver.
 
+  - No clocks! Just as time travellers always try to kill Hitler on their
+    first trip, everyone seems to think that their first screen saver
+    should be a clock of some kind.  Nobody needs to know what time it is
+    with such frequency.  Fight The Tyranny Of The Clock.
+
 
 ==========================================================================
 The XScreenSaver API
@@ -184,6 +189,10 @@ Programming Tips
     in long-lived processes where no such cleanup takes place.
     Consider Valgrind or gcc -fsanitize=leak to find memory leaks.
 
+  - Again, don't use global variables.  If you are doing your developent
+    under X11, test your saver from the command line with the "-pair"
+    argument.  If that crashes, you're using global variables!
+
 
 ==========================================================================
 macOS, iOS and Android
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