Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:47:09 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg-server 1.7.7 Message-ID: <4CE0F38D.6070508@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20101114190640.GA13056@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <4CD7C15D.2010203@icyb.net.ua> <20101108150306.GB17517@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <4CD8132D.9090902@icyb.net.ua> <20101113192506.GC29660@lonesome.com> <4CDEE881.201@icyb.net.ua> <20101114190640.GA13056@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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on 14/11/2010 21:06 Peter Jeremy said the following: > On 2010-Nov-13 21:35:29 +0200, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote: >> I think that you refer to upgrades of the "Xorg bundle" as a whole. >> Not sure if we've had any problems like that when upgrading between minor >> versions of a single module, even such as xorg server. > > Looking back through my gripe list, apart from the general X11 build > system regressions going from 6.9 to 7.0 (reducing portability and > roughly doubling the overall build time), _all_ of the regressions, > POLA violations and general breakage I have run into have been related > to the X server (though some may be DRI/DRM and input/output device). > Actually, now even I can recall my confusion with (1) change of default background in root window from the pattern to black; (2) adding dependency on hald and all that came along by default. But I believe that things like that do not happen between minor releases. Anyway, more incentive for all to do testing in advance. -- Andriy Gapon
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