[Xorg] Detecting server version?

[Kendall Bennett]

Hey Guys,

I have been quiet on these mailing lists for a while as we have been 
slaving away on PowerPC support in our products. I am back working on our 
X Server drivers again, and working on adding support for the X.org 
servers. Part of our previous installer detects the installed XFree86 
version to determine which module we should be installing. To do this we 
look at the 'X -version' string and parse the XFree86 version number from 
that.

Looking at the Xorg server output for the -version command it appears all 
that changed was the first string that contained the XFree86 version 
indentifier was removed, and the Release was upped to 6.7 from 6.6. I can 
easily detect the initial X.org release by looking at the 6.7 string, but 
I need to know if this version number is going to be revved for each 
X.org official release.

Ie: will the next release from X.org be versioned as R6.8? If not, we 
need to seriously considering putting some kind of release versioning 
into the X server so third party driver installers like ours can detect 
the server version correctly and install the correct driver modules based 
on that information. 

For now I will assume the 6.7 will change to 6.8, so I can get our 
installer done. If that isn't the case we will need to fix it before the 
next release ;-)

Regards,

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Kendall Bennett
Chief Executive Officer
SciTech Software, Inc.
Phone: (530) 894 8400
http://www.scitechsoft.com

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