xf86-video-radeonhd pushed.

[JM Ibanez]

"Igor Mozolevsky" <igor at hybrid-lab.co.uk> writes:

> On 19/09/2007, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:57:43PM +0100, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
>> > On 19/09/2007, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > On 9/18/07, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
>> > > > As the topic states, it's out there... even though it will throw up
>> its
>> > > > hands at 95% of the cards out there, it's out.
>> > > >
>> > > > Find it at
>> > > > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd
>> > >
>> > > The http one doesn't seem to work.
>> > >
>> > > I'm behind a firewall so I can't use the git protocol.
>> > >
>> > > I'm trying this:
>> > >
>> > > git clone
>> > > http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/
>> >
>> > Why not just dump it into  ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver for those who
>> > just want the file without the added hassle of protocol on top of
>> protocol
>> > on top of N other protocols wrappers?  Problems are always simple -
>> there's
>> > no need to reinvent the wheel just because some guy feels like doing
>> > something different for a year...
>>
>> daniels at psyence:~/x/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd% ls -R .git | wc -l
>> 49
>>
>> Which file do you want?  Last I checked, FTP didn't really do revision
>> control, but maybe that's just me.
>
>
> True, but at least it allows you to retrieve a  source tarball without
> having to install yet-another-version-control-system... and it takes care of
> stupid network topologies...

... and the said driver isn't even released yet, I believe; throwing a
source tarball to ftp.x.org implies that it's being released. I haven't
checked it out, but I'm pretty sure it's not even close to production
quality -- and therefore *you* have to track the HEAD of the tree too if
you want to use and test it.

IMHO.

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JM Ibanez
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