Re: New Binary modules from CVS

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 20:04, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> For those who are not subscribed to devel@ or xfree86@ I thought this
> might be interesting for others.


Would it be possible to get a single concatenated changelog file of cvs
commits available without downloading and unpacking the distribution?

> Alan.
> 
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> Subject: New Binary modules from CVS
> 
> From tonight, I'm starting a build of the latest full release version of XFree86
> (being 4.3.0), but including the latest drivers from CVS and publishing
> these drivers on my home page at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh. I hope
> to automate the process fully and so we can get nightly builds done, but
> over the next few days they'll be updated sporadically.
> 
> This is an experimental test to see how well I can manage this, but it
> allows those who need a bugfix from the CVS or a completely new driver
> that's been committed to CVS to use it with the current full release
> version of XFree86 and hopefully suffer no versioning problems. But that
> remains to be seen, hence this test.
> 
> The first snapshot of the binary modules are up for x86 architectures
> only at the moment. I intend to add alpha, ppc and possibly sparc at
> some future date.
> 
> This is a big leap forward for those who can't or don't want to build
> the whole X tree and just need driver support or bug fix for their
> video card.
> 
> This process may also be extended for other modules with XFree86 if
> this initial test goes well.
> 
> Any comments of feedback on this is most welcome.
> 
> Note: if you do attempt this, make sure you back up your old driver
> module first.
> 
> Alan.
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