[ANNOUNCE] glamor 0.5.0

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

On Aug 10, 2012, at 03:37, Zhigang Gong <zhigang.gong at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> to try a full functional xserver with glamor, it’s recommended to use the
> following xserver version:
> 
> commit a615b90cab7569fae9d123e4da1d3373c871d84b
> 
> Author: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
> 
> Date:   Wed Mar 14 11:32:36 2012 -0700
> 
> 
> 
>    Bump version number to 1.12.99.0
> 
> 
> 
>    Now that 1.12 has branched, reset the version on master to a
> 
>    development number.
> 


Why is such an old server version recommended?  Surely tip of server-1.12-branch is superior to this branch point+1 on master?  And I'd really expect tip of master to be a better candidate than that given the development nature of glamor.  Can you please clarify?

Thanks,
Jeremy