Minutes from July 16 Release Wranglers call

[Roland Mainz]

Torrey Lyons wrote:
> 
> Some comments on Mac OS X support:
> 
> 1. If the next release is going to be a major release and not a
> stability X11R6.7.1 release,
> I was planning to pull all the recent
> XDarwin work over from the XFree86 tree. Any objections to merging
> this into HEAD? (I see from a comment by Roland Mainz that Mac OS X
> does not currently work.)

MacOSX is currently horked at various points. One of them is my fault
since the tree now assumes that an OS provides |strtok_r| (I thought
that any modern OS has |strtok_r| but it seems I was wrong with that). I
can provide an own version of |strtok_r| on demand (file bug into
bugzilla, assign to me... :) ...

> 2. Adding XDarwin server side support for many of the new extensions
> contemplated for this release will not be trivial. The release
> schedule is very aggressive since there is not yet a clear consensus
> on exactly what is going into it.

Yeah, that's why I do not want "Composite" in the next release. Many
platform maintainers will have trouble with it and there is simply not
enougth time nor are there much example clients which can be used for
testing.
And NOONE really explained how "Composite" will coexist with existing
X11 stuff - "SHAPE" extension, multiple planes, Sun's overlay extension,
non-TrueColor visuals come in mind withour searching it... and when I
search it there may be more questions... ;-/

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Bye,
Roland

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