xorg development questions and ideas

[Terry Chan]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 03:42:25PM +0200, Samuel Verstraete wrote:
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>
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:36:33 +0200
> Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy at o2.pl> wrote:
>
> <<snip>>
> >
> > Replacing XOrg by XOrg7 is very bad idea in my opinion. There is a
> > lot of work put in XOrg7(.1) by lunar devs and module works. But
> > solving all the issues in this decentralised, huge project will take
> > some time (mostly 'outside' dependencies compability). Instead I
> > think it would be good to replace XOrg with XOrg-test. The XOrg is a
> > little bit outdated at 6.8.2 version where XOrg-test is at more
> > modern 6.9.0 one. I use XOrg-test almost since beginning and did not
> > find any issues except some strange behaviour with symlinks
> > generation at build script which causes sometimes loop. But this
> > looks the same in both modules.
>
> AFAIK 6.9.0 is never released as a stable branch of the XOrg tree so
> i'd vote against moving XOrg-test to Xorg... lets just delete XOrg-test
> as the 6.9.0 tree is depreciated anyway.
>
> <<snip>>
> <<double-snip>>

Wrong. See http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgReleases

XOrg-6.9.0 was released 2005-12-21.  Do NOT delete XOrg-test. I use XOrg-test
and it works just fine.  I actually agree with Zbiggy and we should replace
XOrg in moonbase with the contents of XOrg-test.

Terry Chan