Which code base should I use to port something to Xorg 7.4?

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Jun 18 10:31:24 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:30 -0700, Deron Johnson wrote:
> Hi Adam. Thanks for your reply. After I received it, I spoke with the 
> Sun X11 folks and they said that they are using the xserver-1.6-branch. They said that 
> this was a stable, but more recent branch than the 1.5 branch. So should I be 
> using the 1.6 branch for my work? Basically, I want to start with something that is 
> reasonably up-to-date, but not bleeding edge.

1.6 is the most recent stable branch.  It's working pretty well here.

> Also, what branches of the non-xserver gits do I use to build with the 
> xserver-1.6 branch?

git master of just about everything except inputproto and libXi should
work fine with xserver-1.6-branch.  For those two you want inputproto
1.5.0 and libXi 1.2.1.

- ajax
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