[Xcb] releasing

[Vincent Torri]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Jamey Sharp wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 02:42:22PM -0500, Jeremy A. Kolb wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> > > when we weren't trying to get a release out in a few days. :-)
> >
> > Are you serious?
>
> Well, yeah, some sort of release -- a 0.99 version perhaps. Bart's
> proposed we call it a "technology preview" release. I've been trying to
> clean up issues from Bugzilla for the last couple of weeks in
> preparation.
>
> What, you think we should have stated this plan more clearly? Well, OK,
> you're right. :-)
>
> I had some hope of getting Xlib/XCB into the X.org 7.1 release, though
> Keithp is on-record now on the xorg list as advising against that unless
> we get a lot more testing real soon. So get all your friends to test
> Xlib/XCB today! They won't be your friends very much longer but I'll be
> happy. ;-)

the fact that evas uses xcb is a good thing, I think. Writing the ecore
port would need a lot of time (2 months, i think). But I have already
written a xcb port of ecore. But i've not written it in a good way.

when will xorg 7.1 be released