From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 08:47:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52885106566B; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:47:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D4D8FC19; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.topspin.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id KAA08907; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:47:11 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from localhost.topspin.kiev.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.topspin.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1PHuiU-0005IY-OR; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:47:10 +0200 Message-ID: <4CE0F38D.6070508@icyb.net.ua> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:47:09 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy 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> In-Reply-To: <20101114190640.GA13056@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg-server 1.7.7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:47:17 -0000 on 14/11/2010 21:06 Peter Jeremy said the following: > On 2010-Nov-13 21:35:29 +0200, Andriy Gapon 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