[ANNOUNCE] glamor 0.5.0

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
<jeremyhu at freedesktop.org> wrote:
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> On Aug 10, 2012, at 03:37, Zhigang Gong <zhigang.gong at linux.intel.com> wrote:
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>> to try a full functional xserver with glamor, it’s recommended to use the
>> following xserver version:
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>> commit a615b90cab7569fae9d123e4da1d3373c871d84b
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>> Author: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
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>> Date:   Wed Mar 14 11:32:36 2012 -0700
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>>    Bump version number to 1.12.99.0
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>>    Now that 1.12 has branched, reset the version on master to a
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>>    development number.
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> Why is such an old server version recommended?  Surely tip of server-1.12-branch is superior to this branch point+1 on master?  And I'd really expect tip of master to be a better candidate than that given the development nature of glamor.  Can you please clarify?

That should be fine.  The commit is question is just the most recent
commit on master that still works prior to the changes that broke the
module ordering that broke glamor.

Alex