stripping off "xf86-*-" from drivers

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Wed Jan 23 09:13:57 PST 2008


Rémi Cardona wrote:
> However, as others pointed out since I wrote this email, the issue at 
> hand is social and not technical.
> 
> Maybe the Xorg world should adopt a model similar to Gnome or Mozilla ?
> 
> Both of them work more or less the same way with various freeze points 
> before the final release. The major difference is that Mozilla has 
> allowed itself to slip past imposed release dates to further improve QA. 
> But overall, their system works fine.

As I mentioned at 7.3 release time, one thing we did in the initial modular
releases was make sure all the modules built before we declared the release
done.   We had to do this when we built the -X11R7.0 versions of the tarballs,
and when it turned out no one liked, wanted, or used those, we dropped them
and unfortunately dropped with it the step of verifying the entire "katamari"
built.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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