about the modular xorg

[Jan Eidtmann]

On 27.01.07, samuel verstraete wrote:
> 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

i use the 6.6.3 ati driver and the 1.1.0 x-server. no 
problems. assured!

also, whats the point of having a modular xorg when we dont 
update individual packages?

> 
> 
> 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
> >
> >  ///
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