[Xorg] Detecting server version?

Kendall Bennett KendallB at scitechsoft.com
Mon Jun 21 15:45:35 PDT 2004


Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:

> > it should be 6.8.0 rather than 6.8 (otherwise my scripts 
> > will get rather confused!).
> 
> I suspect you'll want to fix your scripts to accept a shorter
> version as equivalent to the longer version with trailing zeros;
> when a '6.8' release does come out, it'll probably be '6.8' and
> not '6.8.0'. 

Ok, good to know. I will fix my scripts to handle both and essentially 
turn it into 6.8.0 if the last digit is missing ;-)

Thanks!

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