Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Christopher Stone
<chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Until nVidia gets their act together?? What the H.E. double hockey
> sticks are you talking about?  nVidia can't do anything until xorg's
> ABI is *stable*.  They cannot keep chasing a moving target.  If xorg
> declared today that the ABI will be stable then perhaps nVidia can get
> working on new drivers.  Perhaps xorg has already done this??

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=107725
05-13-08, 12:48 AM
"I got assurance from the release manager that the ABI won't be
changing between now and the official xserver 1.5 release, so the ABI
will be marked as supported in the next driver release so that
-ignoreABI won't be required."

>
> And I don't see why you can't have two different xorg packages.  We
> have other compat packages with gcc and libstdc++, etc...

I think you are over-simplifying the complexity of what it would take
to make such a scheme work for the "framework" that is X.  If you can
do it, and make it work seemlessly, more power to you. But I have no
doubt that it is wrong to make this sort of demand on ajax's time.
We've seen compatibility issues in the past with regard to nvidia on
release day. There is absolutely nothing new here.

-jef