> Our X11R7.4-merge project gate has now had most of > the driver updates > checked in (thanks Jay & Niveditha!) [...] > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- > - alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System > em Engineering
There (THANKS&&PAYMENT&&LEADERSLIST&&OfflistResponses), elsewhere: (NOTHING). I still don't know very much about your actual plans with SPARC (server 1.3 vs. 1.5 vs. 1.5.1++). 2008.11 vs. 2009.04? There is no attempt to tell me (or the users) what's going on in terms of SPARC-Indiana. You are neglecting your most loyal previous customers, and by doing so you ensure, that "previous" and "future" are going to be disjoint (disjunkt) sets. You wanna make "your own" sunny thing. From time to time you report (!, one-directional) what you already have decided to do. This has nothing to do with project "FOX" any longer, as it had been proposed by the (true) community in 2006. It's simply the successor to your old consolidation, with the difference that is is based on 100% open-src components now, rather than on your internal closed-src Xsun tree. But it is the direct and total successor to the xwin-consolidation, so it is not an actual "Open Opensource Project" at all: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/sources/ "The last released build can also be downloaded from the OpenSolaris download center at http://dlc.sun.com/osol/x/downloads/current/, but those are not currently being updated. Current changes are being made available via Mercurial in the Fully Open X Project." So you moved your internal procedure into the open, which is good. You also donated your new modular Makefile system and licensed it to be freely re-usable, very good ,(Natamar is adopting it). But the decision-making process and related seems to be an internal affair. Question: Would it be imaginable to ship both the 1.3 and 1.5.x series servers at the same time on SPARC, at least for some time until 1.5.x really works with misc. legacy drivers? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
