Fwd: Re: X.Org Foundation - Conference Call Minutes - 1st April 2004

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>From: "Mark W. Snitily" <[email protected]>
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>CC: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: X.Org Foundation - Conference Call Minutes - 1st April 2004
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>Egbert Eich wrote:
> > Mark W. Snitily writes:
> >  > Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >  > I can't agree with your comments more!  We (i.e. the old X.Org)
> >  > spent a lot of time and money having Metro Link (i.e. a lot of
> >  > _my_ time and others at Metro Link) work as an X.Org contractor
> >  > to provide bug fixes and enhancements simultaneously to both the
> >  > then current X11R6.6 SI and the then current XFree86 4.x source
> >  > tree.  In a way this really was a merger and hence, the new
> >  > X.Org source tree builds/improves upon both the old SI and
> >  > XFree86.  I would consider this to be a very important point.
> >
> > We should keep the facts straight here. The 6.6 merger was done
> > by XFree86 well before 4.3 came out. About anything from the
> > sample implementation that was done after 6.6 and hasn't been
> > part of XFree86 already has been reverted before the release
> > as it introduced unjustifiable backward incompatibilities.
>
>Wrong.(!)  Egbert, you must not be aware of how much time and
>money the old X.Org spent on helping to improve XFree86.  I
>spent *all* of 2002 working on X.Org bug fixes and enhancements
>that were fed into the then current X11R6.6.x and the then
>current XFree86 4.x.  The X11R6.6 "merge" was done long before
>all of this work.  There were many bug fixes and improvements
>provided to XFree86 by the old X.Org after the X11R6.6 "merge."
>That is why I wrote "In a way this really was a merger, ..."
>I stand by my above words.
>
>  -- Mark