xorg 7.3.1 ?

[Sergio Monteiro Basto]

Hi,
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 17:45 +0200, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:29:59AM +0000, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> > Since we have a Xorg 7.4 release plan
> > shouldn't we release Xorg 7.3.1 before,
> 
> Not really.
> 
> > Since fedora , ubuntus and other distro still on X 7.2
> > this will be a great jump swap 7.2 to 7.4 with so many changes .
> > 
> > I would like distinct bugs form X server 1.4 than 1.5 ,
> > Seems to me 1.5 will be to green at release time for fedora 9 .
> > I prefer a smooth transaction of versions.
> 
> 1.4 is just as bad, really.  We don't have the manpower to maintain two
> primary development branches, full stop.
> 

This weekend trying find out what is bad on xserver 1.4+ and don't find
any. I had install pre Xorg 7.3.1 on my old laptop (year 2001) with one
s3 savage, works but don't works great.  I downgrade all (a good thing
of rpms) to Fedora 8 updated (with xserver 1.3) and works is even
worst. 

On Linuxs box, I think, 1.4+ works better than 1.3 , the new drives for
the news computers works better on 1.4+. Developers of drives tend to
put thing working against xserver 1.4+     

So far, I had test on 2 Intels, 1 Ati Radeon 9200SE (r200) and 1 S3
Savage Twister and all just work better with 1.4+. 

In my point of view, the problem could be the legacy, which is a kind of
complex keep it all update. So a note on release 7.3.1, could be, that
this released is more for new drives and computers on Linux. And
problems of legacy stuff should be sent to the new major released ... 

I'd not be here writing this email , if I don't think that is important
release or upgrade X from server 1.3 to 1.4.1

> > X server 1.4.1 still not released because seems that have leaks of
> > memory ( I don't find any !) , but better leaks , than a nightmare of
> > problems .
> 
> 1.4.0.90 is out and 1.4.1 will come eventually.  If you can point to any
> other components with major bugs, we can do stable releases of those for
> distributions to use, and wham, you have what's essentially 7.3.1.
> 

yap , release is practically put a note on homepage, that is released.
But many packers wait for that.
About components that should be released with Xorg 7.3.1

- libpciaccess-0.10.0
- Mesa-7.0.3
- xorg-x11-proto-devel with (glproto-1.4.9)
- Xorg-server-1.4.1
- xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.2.0
- xorg-x11-drv-savage-2.1.3-103.20080302
- synaptics-0.15

Already release but important to upgrade:
- libpixman-0.9.6
- xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0

from Fedora 8 updated I just update more 2 or 3 libs :
libSM-1.0.3
libXext-1.0.2 ( I have to put on test 1.0.4 ) 
libXxf86dga-1.0.2

> Cheers,
> Daniel
Best regards,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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