xorg7.3 [was: 7.0 preview slides]

Scott T. Hildreth shild at sbcglobal.net
Sun Nov 4 06:52:02 PST 2007


On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 23:41 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 03:41:32PM -0500, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> > I understand Xorg is changing their code to be modular, but was it
> > necessary to update the ports to 7.3 so quickly?   It may be my
> > perception, but it seemed like 7.2 was put in the ports tree and
> > shortly after that 7.3 was committed and then many problems started.
> 
> The situation was that our import of 7.2 was delayed as we tested and
> retested and retested, to get the framework working for the modular
> code and ensure as few regressions as possible.  Because of this, 7.3
> was almost ready for release by the time we were done.
> 
> It seems as though 7.3 is better for some people and worse for others.
> With such a large codebase, this is probably inevitable.
> 
> In any case, as soon as 7.3 was out, I'm sure xorg lost interest in
> bug reports about 7.2, and people were already asking us when the
> next version was going to be in.
> 


   Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for the reply Mark.


> mcl


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