Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed May 21 01:11:25 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 20:02 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> Was anyone asking you to "support" one of the vendors that actually 
> makes an effort to help Linux users?   The issue is about shipping 
> software with stable interfaces - i.e. release versions.   Otherwise you 
> are actively sabotaging anyone who wants to cooperate.

Perhaps you missed the part where the ABI of X is stable for this
release, and that's why the upstream maintainer wanted to see it shipped
in the Fedora 9 release.  Just because it doesn't have the magical "1.5"
string attached doesn't mean the ABI is done and stable.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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