Updated 7.5 release plans

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:18:02PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > After chatting with Peter about the state of Xi2, here's the revised
> > schedule.  I'm aiming to have both Xi2 and XKB2 merged by the 14th of
> > June; Xi2 is already in people.fd.o:~whot/xserver.git and pretty close
> > to mergeable already, and XKB2 will be pushed for initial review this
> > weekend.  I've been working on the xkbcommon stuff, and that should
> > hopefully be mergeable in time too.  If not, we'll look at pushing it
> > later.
> 
> About xkbcommon - it's not quite ready for primetime. I was looking
> into an issue I'd papered over with ctrls->num_groups == 0 and found
> out that a XkbDescPtr generated by xkbcomp is not the complete thing.
> Brilliantly, some parts of the keyboard description are put into the
> XKM file and not added to the DescPtr until the XKM file is decoded in
> the server. Other things I noticed were per-key repeat rate and maybe
> indicators but I haven't really gotten into it yet.
> 
> So, a xkbcommon XkbDescPtr is not the same as a XkbDescPtr generated
> from a XKM file. More code movement will be needed, and I don't know
> how much time I can throw at this right now. I wouldn't block on
> xkbcommon unless it's required for XKB2.

That's fine.  I'll have a look at fixing it up, along with test cases
for XkbDescRec et al, so we can make sure that they're equivalent.

Cheers,
Daniel
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