On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:41:15PM -0500, David Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:31:54AM -0700, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> >On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, David Dawes wrote:
> >
> >>The schedule for the next XFree86 release -- 4.5.0 is as follows:
> >
> >>  26 January 2005        feature freeze
> >>  late February 2005     code freeze
> >>  early-mid March 2005   release
> >
> >>The feature freeze date is the date by which non-bug-fix submissions
> >>need to be received in order to be considered for inclusion in the 4.5.0
> >>release.  The code freeze date is the point at which only seriaous bug
> >>fixes and documentation updates are accepted.
> >
> >>Submissions may be made through the XFree86 bugzilla at bugs.xfree86.org
> >>or via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  It is also a good idea to send a
> >>note here regarding new submissions or for previous submissions that
> >>have not been committed yet.  Submissions should be integrated/tested
> >>against the most recent XFree86 snapshot or the current CVS trunk, and
> >>submitted as patches against such.  XFree86 snapshots can be found at
> >><http://www.xfree86.org/develsnaps/>.
> >
> >>The actual code freeze and release dates will be nailed down as they get
> >>closer.
> >
> >Should an attempt be made to resurrect DMX before 4.5?
> 
> How seriously broken is it?

Here's an explanation of the issue with a proposed fix to maintain
backward compatibility:

    http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10290987

I've tested my patch to make sure that it works fine on Linux.  I don't
have an SGI box to verify that it still works fine on their systems.
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