Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:14:38 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not Xorg 7.0? Message-ID: <XFMail.20060205161438.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20060205214844.GA5065@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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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@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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