[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-vboxvideo 1.0.0

Michael Thayer michael.thayer at oracle.com
Thu Nov 30 11:20:35 UTC 2017


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?

Regards
Michael
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