Minutes from July 16 Release Wranglers call

[Keith Packard]

Around 13 o'clock on Jul 16, Torrey Lyons wrote:

> 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.)

That would be great.

> 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.

XFixes and Damage should have little to no effect on any X server; they
both work entirely at the DIX level.  Nothing in either of these 
extensions is novel or even really new.

Composite is not really interesting in the XDarwin environment in any case;
the main utility aside from eye-candy is to provide support for screen
magnifiers which need to have persistant window contents for occluded
windows, which XDarwin already provides.

Note that Composite support in the X server must be driven by the DDX 
itself, so a DDX which cannot support it will not enable it.

> 3. Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" (http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/) will 
> ship with an updated version of Apple's X11. Apple is going to be 
> faced with the question of what release they should base Tiger's 
> version of X11 on. The next X.Org release might be timely if it is a 
> solid release on Mac OS X.

Is there someone at Apple we should ask about this?

-keith


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