On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Kevin E Martin wrote:On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:41:15PM -0500, David Dawes wrote:On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:31:54AM -0700, Marc Aurele La France wrote:On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, David Dawes wrote:The schedule for the next XFree86 release -- 4.5.0 is as follows:
26 January 2005 feature freeze late February 2005 code freeze early-mid March 2005 release
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The actual code freeze and release dates will be nailed down as they get closer.
Should an attempt be made to resurrect DMX before 4.5?
How seriously broken is it?
Here's an explanation of the issue with a proposed fix to maintain backward compatibility:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10290987
I've tested my patch to make sure that it works fine on Linux. I don't have an SGI box to verify that it still works fine on their systems.
Well, if I were you, I'd commit something like that ASAP. I can deal with the build issues, test case or no test case. The point being that no one will fix it if it doesn't build.
Longer term though, we need to look at glxProxy being more of an #ifdef'ed derivative of GLX.
Come to think of it, I'll be even blunter. If DMX breaks every time GLX is resync'ed, then there's no point in keeping DMX. This whether we're talking about XFree86's repository, or X.Org's.
So, I'd strongly advise you, Kevin, to talk to the GLX people in getting glxProxy done properly.
Marc.
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