breaking source compatibility

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Thu Dec 9 10:39:02 PST 2010


charlie no wrote:
> Your commit
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=c8701115462b482d99ecff24d9de0f2806084ba5 
> breaks compatibility with kde-qt-git master and qt-git master or really
> most versions of qt I guess.
> 
> http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-15982?focusedCommentId=135220#comment-135220
> 
> So who is gonna budge, QT or Xorg developers?

TBD.   xorg-devel is discussing it, since we didn't expect it to break
compatibility when it was reviewed.

Fortunately, it's just the development branch, not going to be released soon,
so isn't actually breaking anything yet.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System



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