about the modular xorg

[Jan Eidtmann]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:01:50 +0100
samuel verstraete <samuel.verstraete at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/27/07, Jan Eidtmann <cmak at lunar-linux.org> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Afaik we don't provide the modular stuff... we also didn't make the
> choice to modularize X.Org. And i don't feel like testing all drivers.
> The advantage of the modular system is that *you* can use all lunar's
> modules and just change one (the driver) and still be fine ...
> 
> anyway this discussion is useless. Neither Moe or me have the hardware
> and the time to test all this stuff, so we stick to the release
> cycles. You can bump all you want in zlocal.
> gr,S.

thats right--- but we can bump the version that we have 
tested...for example i use the ati driver, i can test it, i 
can bump it. its just as with all the other modules...most 
bumps are bugfix bumps. no reason to keep up to date with 
ALL the modules...no reason to stick with the releases 
either.
in the modular xorg there are bugfix versions and they are 
supposed to replace the release versions.
its comparatively complicated (*to much work*) to copy them 
to zlocal, just to forget to rm them again on updates. :P

> > >
> > > 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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