1) Clarification Xorg Server Versioning wanted 2) Mesa reference problems in xorg-server-1.1.99.903 but not in 1.2.99.0

[Tobias Gerschner]

> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:59:18 +1300
> From: Wei-Tsun Sun <wsun013 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: 1) Clarification Xorg Server Versioning wanted 2) Mesa
>         reference problems in xorg-server-1.1.99.903 but not in 1.2.99.0
> To: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
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> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:42:02 +1300
> "Tobias Gerschner" <tobias.gerschner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't know which code is actually more up-to-date (Is there any wiki
> > page to fill me in about those details ? Is there a commit / branching
> > scheme you follow ? Found none so far and I really visit your wiki
> > often. )
> >
>
> Check out the tag section of this page:
>
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=summary
>
> My guess is that the master tag is the latest one, which uses the new
> input specifications (maybe a wrong terminology here), where only
> keyboad and mouse work (for me) at this time. Latest patches are always
> applied here.
>
> The other tag, which is the server-1.2-branch, which may not be applied
> all of the patches in the master, which is more close to the current X
> server, while you might need to get few commit-diff from the master to
> get some of the features to work.

Hi,

thanks for pointing that out. Makes kind of sense. Guess I need to get
more familiar with webgit.

regards
-- 
Tobias Gerschner
Member of Board of Yoper Linux Ltd. NZ

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