Les Mikesell wrote:
Adam Jackson wrote:
I don't have a problem with Xorg taking any amount of time they want.
The problem is in fedora shipping a pre-release - or perhaps even more
so in their claim of knowing that the ABI is finalized before it is in
fact published as a standard.
I suggest you complain to the xorg 1.5 release engineer the Fedora
xorg maintainer is not coordinating with him closely. And then that
you follow the advice of the xorg 1.5 release engineer on this issue.
You know I'm both, right?
- ajax
I assume that was an attempt at humor.... But, it makes it hard to
claim that you didn't have some inside information about when the
interface was going to stop changing. In another company that sort of
thing might be called anti-competitive behavior.
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Guys let's stop using the argument "they didn't know it was stable"...
If You're writing a driver for Your product and not just an ordinary
userspace thing, but a driver half of which sits in the kernel and the
other half in X, You'll HAVE TO have a guy (or maybe many more) who will
be doing just that and nothing else.
And I bet if someone's job is writing an Xorg driver, he would at least
be signed to the -devel mailing list and would checkout from
CVS/SVN/GIT/... at least once a week to watch where the development is.
And don't tell that's not the case with Windows. Of course it isn't...
But we aren't talking about a windows programmer who is writing Xorg
driver as a hobby in the first time in his life and doesn't know that
ABI's aren't very loved in FOSS world. We are speaking about a *nix
programmer.
I myself have an Nvidia card in my home PC (and one at work).
And because I want to be able to do OpenGL (accelerated) I just excluded
xorg stuff from yum upgrade. I'll have to wait for the driver from
NVidia. Mea culpa (for buying NVidia.. next one will be AMD), not
Fedora's (for shipping "unstable" ABI).
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