Why not Xorg 7.0?

[Conrad Sabatier]

On 05-Feb-2006 Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 03:00:46PM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
>> Correct me if I'm mistaken, but wasn't Xorg 7.0 already available at the
>> time when we upgraded to 6.9?
> 
> Since 6.9 and 7.0 were released at the same time, the answer is obviously
> yes.
> 
>>  If so, why didn't we just go all the way to 7.0?
> 
> Because it was easier to upgrade to 6.9 ?
> 
> Xorg 6.9 and 7.0 use the same source code, and should provide exactly the
> same functionality.  What differs is the building procedures, and the
> tools used to build it.
> 6.9 uses the same procedures as previous Xorg/XFree86 releases, while 7.0
> uses a new, modular, approach.
> Moving to 7.0 would have required more work (and with a greater chance of
> running into new bugs) and would probably have delayed the upgrade even
> more to allow for the extra testing needed.

Ah, yes, that sounds quite reasonable.  I recently grabbed the CVS sources
and took a look, so I know what you're referring to.

Thanks.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"