Re: 4.3.0 wishlist item
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:20:49PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 07:04:19AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Notice that shipping the SDK (as scheduled for the pre2 release in
> > Daniel's 4.3.0 plan), will enable me (or others) to easily build any CVS
> > head drivers, and i plan to release a driver package once that is done.
> >
> > This would enable to make regular snapshots of the CVS head drivers,
> > without needing to import to much of head into the 4.3.0 package, which
> > may (or may not) cause problems.
>
> Yeah, but I still want to import drivers like Savage/SiS, where it's not
> the *featureset*, but the *bugfixes* that concern me. It seems to fix an
> issue on my co-worker's Savage where logging into Hotmail leaves an
> interesting blue/white striped texture all over the screen.
>
> I don't think we should be forcing users to use an experimental snapshot
> package to get bugfixes for issues like that, personally. I mean, it's
> not like our tree is completely virginal anyway. ;)
BTW, are these changes not also commited to the 4.3.0 bugfix branch ? If
not, maybe it would be worthwill to ask their maintainers to do so, I am
sure David would agree with me on that.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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