On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:41:22AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Is there some model of versioning inside X _except_ for the "it won't > work" kind of thing? Can we fix this going forward, so that you can have > _real_ versioning (ie multiple installed versions of a libdrm, the way you > can have concurrently multiple installed versions of glibc?)
There isn't. I don't think there's any intrinsic difficulty in doing so, other than the buildsystems and X's own unstable driver API. > IOW, we have a real technical problem here. Are you just going to continue > to make excuses about it? I'm not questioning the fact that it would be preferable to provide compatibility. But that compatibility doesn't come for free - someone has to implement it, and when your developer base is almost entirely made up of people who are doing this because they find it fun and interesting rather than because they're paid to, who's going to do it and what functionality is going to be delayed as a result? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
