Updating the wiki and other issues

[Jon Grosshart]

On Dec 11, 2007 5:18 PM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:

> Jon Grosshart wrote:
> > 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}
>
> Sorry - I  haven't had a chance to update it for 7.3 - I'd be happy if
> others did.    I originally created it via a script going over the output
> of the tarballs in the website, I'm not sure how discrepancies crept in.


Right. That's pretty much what I was going to do...


>
>
> > 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/ .
>
> Since it doesn't build on Linux (it's a BSD/Solaris version of fbdev), it
> often gets overlooked by the release managers.


Thanks. That clarifies things a bit.


>
>
> > 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/ ?
>
> It was simply renamed to -intel.   -i810 is no more deprecated than
> -ati 6.5, it's just replaced by a newer version.


Hmmmm... We could split hairs on that one all day I'm afraid. It really
needs to be listed in deprecated since there is no longer a driver tarball
of that name. That's the foremost definition of deprecated. "no longer
relevant"... We don't have a mkcfm tarball anymore either and that was
properly documented in 7.2...

O.k.. I'm being a tad selfish because this kind of thing is playing havoc
with my script. I have both i810 and intel drivers listed in my driver text
file for 7.3. I use a base-line 'build-order' file that is meant to be
backwards compatible with previous versions. If i810 was documented in
deprecated/ then my script would catch it and chuck i810 out the window if
$VERSION = 7.3....

 Jon
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