[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-vboxvideo 1.0.0

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 09:08:55 UTC 2017


On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:20 AM, Michael Thayer
<michael.thayer at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hello Matt,
>
> 30.11.2017 00:53, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Michael Thayer
>> <michael.thayer at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> The first release of vboxvideo in upstream X.Org.  Enjoy!
>>
>> Very glad to see this!
>
> Thank you.  Obviously it is mainly for the benefit of non-Linux these
> days as Linux is handled by the kernel driver.
>
>> Just one thing to note: the driver is "xf86-video-vboxvideo" but the
>> git repository is named xf86-video-vbox. Can we fix the name of the
>> git repo to match?
>>
>> Or, alternatively rename the driver to match the git repo? Having
>> video in the name twice is a bit redundant :)
>
> I agree that xf86-video-vbox makes slightly more sense, but perhaps for
> simplicity we can still just rename the repository?

That works for me.


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