about the modular xorg

[samuel verstraete]

The xorg ppl only guarantee compatibility whitin the releases. At this
moment i have no needs of breaking that assured compatibility. I know
the ati and the intel gpu driver have nice upgrades ready but as far
as i know they do require an update of xorg-server to 1.1.1 . Which
breaks compatibility with older drivers.
Anyway... I'm following the xorg mailing list and as i have seen that
they were bumping quite a lot of modules to a new version i think the
X11R7.2 release is imminent. which is the other reason i didn't feel
like updating... They actually planned this bump already in november
which is why i didn't watch the individual releases of the tree.

gr.S


On 1/27/07, Jan Eidtmann <cmak at lunar-linux.org> wrote:
> hej there,
>
> i have some questions about whats our policy for the
> modular xorg modules. do we (as it currently seems) only
> provide release versions for all modules (versions from
> $XORG_URL/X11$Release), or do we allow individual updates
> for each module (packages from $XORG_URL/individual)?
>
> i dont know weather or not the xorg people add updated
> (bugfix versions) for individual modules into
> $XORG_URL/X11$Release, but it seems that they dont. for
> example: the ati display driver is at version 6.6.0 in the
> release tree (the version it was when X11R7.1 was
> released), but at 6.6.3 in the individual tree. whats the
> deal? i mean, isnt it kinda useless to use the modular
> approach when we dont update the individual packages?
>
> now, if we use updates from the individual tree, care must
> be taken that we do not use development versions for the
> next release, but only bugfix versions for the
> current...but that should be easy to accomplish ^^)
>
> comments please
>
>  ///
> cmak
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