X11R7
John Davidorff Pell
jpell.lists at mac.com
Sat Jun 4 17:15:25 PDT 2005
I've been poking around the Xorg wiki and came up with a question or
two.
Aside from modularisation, what changes will be made in the next
release? I know there are a lot of bug fixes and improvements to
various features, but are there any plans for specific new features?
for example, will composite and damage be enabled by default? Will
XCB be part of the release, default or not? &c. Is there a release
plan, or just general development?
Specifically, there are several changed/improved/new extensions, like
XHotPlug, that don't look active in the wiki. KeySym changes listed
on the KeySym page look like they ought to be incorporated.
Also, I've heard a lot of talk about ABI breakage in various modules,
but I don't remember seeing decisions made.
Basically, I'm asking if the modularisation is the Big Feature, or if
there are specific changes that will happen, apart from the build
system?
One thing I've noticed is discussion about where developers ought to
spend their time. Perhaps with specific goals for X11R7 (besides
modularisation), it would be simpler for developers to find places to
work as well as give direction to those developers who still find
time to argue about what to spend their time on.
Perhaps all my questions are just symptoms of a not-quite-recent wiki
and decisions have been made and these changes are already in CVS.
Thanx,
JP
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