Xorg 1.5 missed the train?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed May 21 20:39:00 UTC 2008
Suren Karapetyan wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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.
Yes... But this may not be the guy that decides when an officially
supported driver is announced and released.
> 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.
Yes, so if someone mentioned that it was maybe, probably stable a week
ago without being prepared to call it a release, you might expect said
programmer to have noticed by now, but it hardly seems fair to expect
him or his company to commit to a release at that point either.
> 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.
*nix doesn't have much to do with refusing to standardize interfaces,
that's exclusively Linus's territory. I think we'll see something
different when Red Hat does their release.
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Les Mikesell
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