On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:55:24PM +0200, Sven Luther scrawled: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:21:31PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Well, considering 4.3.0 only runs on i386/powerpc/sparc/ia64/alpha at > > the moment, and s390/hurd-i386 support is in the works, it still has a > > way to go. Getting a complete 4.2.1 is an admirable goal, *just in case* > > 4.3 doesn't make it to sarge. > > Yes, sure, but we will get flamed for being out of date.
Although the nv and i845g stuff is important, if it means more stability, it's something I can live with, personally. > > The problem is that we have by far the best packages of any > > distribution, with RedHat our closest competitor in this regard. They're > > of an amazingly high quality, and XFree86 upstream releases aren't; > > they're code drops that don't work on anything other than i386/powerpc, > > usually, and half the time they're even severely brokenn on i386. > > Porting it to other architectures is quite a monumental task, so having > > 4.3.0 as far as we have it is quite a great achievement IMHO. > > Yes, sure, but it is a fork, and thus more work. Yeah, but there's nothing we can do about the amount of patching we have to do. We support over a dozen architectures, that's it. XFree86 doesn't have the same sort of release engineering or quality assurance we do. > > I've personally stayed silent because that discussion is largely full of > > vested political interests, and looks likely to go nowhere. I'm waiting > > until real code comes forth. > > :))) > > I was one of the first to post in the list, and it was with technical > issues, it degenerated since then. I got a feeling of dread when I saw the initial mail, looked at the archives, and my suspicions were confirmed. I posted once to correct a misperception about KDE. > > XF86Config-4, XFree86.0.log. > > A sure, but they yield nothing really important, but then, maybe i > missed something. Hmm, no idea, sorry. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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