libXfont version inconsistency ?

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Daniel Stone <daniel at freedesktop.org> schrieb:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:10:52PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > * Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm at pld-linux.org> schrieb:
> > > Think what will happen when someone does some code rework without 
> > > breaking ABI and will give version 2.0 to libXfont ... 
> > 
> > He simply shouldn't. What should legitimate such an huge version 
> > jump if the ABI is untouched ? On an major jump, people expect
> > something totally new, which is incompatible with the previous 
> > version (maybe even on source level).
> 
> So you're saying that we should be on X17, not X11R7?

No. AFAIK X11 refers to the protocol and API specification(s),
R7(.x|) is the distribution. You dont change it if each time
we've got some updated package.

IMHO, X11R7 is just an distribution.


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