On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 04:14:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 12:04:22AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I don't want to merge something that turns out to be a complete useless > > lemon. > > It will not, because i can then build a driver only package directly out > of the X CVS trunk drivers module without needing a full X build and 4 > Go of disk space i don't have. This would make it easier for our user to > upgrade their driver for new cards without needing a fully new X server > package which may or may not come in acceptable time. I had the > intention of uploading and maintaining such a debian package, but > without the SDK it requires the full source tree. It may work, but it may not; that's what I'm saying. As you've said, the SDK has quite a few problems. I really want to give it a spin myself; failing that, I suppose I'll just have to merge it and see how it goes. > Also, my intention is to ensure that the upstream cvs tree can always be > built with this 4.3.0 SDK, at least upto the time of the 4.4.0 release. > > So, no, it would not be useless, i would even have such a package > already if there was SDK already, and i was only waiting for the 4.3.0-1 > release, which i had the impression from our last exchange, was going to > happen any time now. If it didn't work, it'd be useless. That's what I'm saying, and I don't intend to have anything useless kicking around in my XFree86 packages. > > If you want to backport the fixes to xf-4.3-branch, I'll look at it > > then. > > Yes, do you want me to commit it to the 4.3.0 bugfix branch, or would > you also accept a plain patch for now ? Either is fine. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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