xf86CheckBeta() and friends

[Thomas Winischhofer]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:36:14PM -0500, Kristian H?gsberg wrote:
> 
>>Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>>
>>>Kristian H?gsberg wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is xf86CheckBeta() something we want to keep around?  In other words, 
>>>>do we want to release self-imploding binaries ever again, or could 
>>>>common/xf86Beta.c, xf86Version.h and xf86GetVersion() be removed?
>>>>
>>>
>>>I've had a patch to remove them in one of my local tree for a long time.
>>
>>It would be cool to get that upstream -- do you see any reason we 
>>couldn't just remove this functionality?
> 
> 
> No, I killed it in Debrix and see no reason to keep it around.  IIRC, it
> was only there to timebomb betas of XFree86 after the release came out,
> which is total crap and has no place in our tree.


I would guess that at least xf86Version.h/xf86GetVersion() perhaps is 
being used in unified binary drivers (like NVidia's, ATI's) for X.org 
and XFree86.

Thomas


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