Updating the wiki and other issues

[Christoph Brill]

Am Dienstag, den 11.12.2007, 16:32 -0500 schrieb Jon Grosshart:
> Greets all. I'm interested in whipping this page into shape.
> 
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Releases/ModuleVersions
> 
> It hasn't been updated for 7.3 and if you compare what IS listed
> there, it doesn't jive with what tarballs can be found at: 
> 
> hxxp://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.{1,2}
> 
> For instance, xf86-video-wsfb... What's up with this guy? It's listed
> as a part of 7.2 on the wiki but is no where to be found in
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.2/src/driver/ . It's not
> even in everything/. So either someone forgot to upload it to the
> driver/ directory or the wiki is wrong. It is in individual/ but that
> doesn't do anyone any good. I'm seeing MANY discrepancies like this
> and want to fix them. I have no control over mistakes on the download
> server but can fix the wiki.
> 
> So.. this leads me to ask, where is THE definitive source for
> determining what modules are supposed to be included with what release
> versions? Thus far, with the switch to modular X, I've been solely
> relying on proper tarball documentation and uploading to
> hxxp://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/$VERSION/src/ which doesn't
> appear to be happening 100% of the time.
> 
> On a related note, I'm not sure what's up with xf86-video-i810 in
> 7.3... If it was dropped or possibly even merged with
> xf86-video-intel, then why isn't it listed in
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.3/src/deprecated/ ?
> 
> I haven't enough time to subscribe to the mailing list and keep up on
> every aspect of Xorg development in order to know what is going on
> with every module in every release. That would be insane IMO.
> 
> Excuse me if I'm overlooking the obvious on how to determine module
> versions that are supposed to be matched with release versions.
> Someone previously told me on this list it wasn't exactly rocket
> science, but I beg to differ. The apparent discrepancies on the
> freedesktop server are frustrating to say the least. Months ago, I
> found a driver module listed in another directory entirely; lib maybe
> (which I posted about here and the module was eventually removed).
> 
> If checking the release directories is indeed the proper way to go
> about getting the correct source for an Xorg build (I don't use git at
> all), then we really need some consistency in that regard as far as
> organization and documentation on the official release download
> server. Once that happens, updating the wiki should be relatively
> painless and will provide an accurate list of what is included with
> each release version.
> 
> Jon 

Wouldn't it make sense to autogenerate this page? One could write a
simple PHP/Perl/Python/SH/whatever script to generate this page on the
fly or at release time. This way noone would have to keep this page up
to date (which IMO is just a huge amout of useless work since most
packages just jump into http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/ and grab
all the exciting stuff from there).