<div>On 19/09/2007, JM Ibanez <<a href="mailto:jm@orangeandbronze.com">jm@orangeandbronze.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> "Igor Mozolevsky" <<a href="mailto:igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk">igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk</a>> writes: > On 19/09/2007, Daniel Stone <<a href="mailto:daniel@fooishbar.org">daniel@fooishbar.org</a>> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:57:43PM +0100, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: >> > On 19/09/2007, Felipe Contreras <<a href="mailto:felipe.contreras@gmail.com">felipe.contreras@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> > > On 9/18/07, Luc Verhaegen <<a href="mailto:libv@skynet.be">libv@skynet.be</a>> wrote: >> > > > As the topic states, it's out there... even though it will throw up >> its >> > > > hands at 95% of the cards out there, it's out. >> > > > >> > > > Find it at >> > > > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd >> > > >> > > The http one doesn't seem to work. >> > > >> > > I'm behind a firewall so I can't use the git protocol. >> > > >> > > I'm trying this: >> > > >> > > git clone >> > > <a href="http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/">http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/ </a> >> > >> > Why not just dump it into <a href="http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver">ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver</a> for those who >> > just want the file without the added hassle of protocol on top of >> protocol >> > on top of N other protocols wrappers? Problems are always simple - >> there's >> > no need to reinvent the wheel just because some guy feels like doing >> > something different for a year... >> >> daniels@psyence:~/x/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd% ls -R .git | wc -l >> 49 >> >> Which file do you want? Last I checked, FTP didn't really do revision >> control, but maybe that's just me. > > > True, but at least it allows you to retrieve a source tarball without > having to install yet-another-version-control-system... and it takes care of > stupid network topologies... ... and the said driver isn't even released yet, I believe; throwing a source tarball to <a href="http://ftp.x.org">ftp.x.org</a> implies that it's being released. I haven't checked it out, but I'm pretty sure it's not even close to production quality -- and therefore *you* have to track the HEAD of the tree too if you want to use and test it.</blockquote><div> I've clearly misunderstood what "pushed" and "it's out" mean... </div><div> </div> </div>