Re: Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Christopher Stone
<chris.stone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> As I stated in my original post "just how hard can it be to provide
> compatibility packages?"  From what I understand, you could just drop
> in the F8 packages right into F9 and that's all that is required.
> Then nVidia users could use the f8 version of xorg while everyone else
> could use the f9 version.  Why is it not that simple?

Because there are ABI changes between the old and the new?


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