Version numbers reported by various branches of X

Pavel Troller patrol at sinus.cz
Sat Mar 3 23:28:33 PST 2007


Hi!
  I've just built something which I hope is server-1.3-branch. However, it
writes the following when started:

root at arcus:/usr/src/x/xorg7.1svn# X

This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.

X Window System Version 7.1.99.2
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.99.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.20-e x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux arcus 2.6.20-e #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 5 21:30:35 CET 2007 x86_64
Build Date: 04 March 2007

        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
etc. etc.

I know that master branch uses such a misleading versioning (7.2 is out but
this still reports as 7.1.99.2 and is dated from 2005), but I think that it
would be good to modify the version string to be more clear what kind of 
xserver is currently running.

                              With regards, Pavel Troller



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