Civileme wrote:
> As I recall, the release of XFree86 4.0 made it just under the wire for the 7.1 code
> freeze. You will find terms not used in a standard manner here. For example, the
> "beta" of development is just frozen code--nothing new to be added, but it does NOT
> mean that all the in-house discoverable bugs have been found. Some beta-testers have
> been bitterly critical about that but it was just the most appropriate term to use
> which approximately paralleled a radically different development model. Snapshot is
> snapshot--not nightly build, and it means that there was not adequate time before the
> code freeze to do anything to the release--so the debugging was short. If you decide
> to hang around, the terms will take on new meanings or perhaps you will invent some
> terms for the folks to use which describes the development system and its aspects and
> products.
>
> Civileme
OK. That makes a lot of sense. I'll take you word for it. ~,^
BTW, speaking of XFree86 4.0, I still haven't upgraded to the 4.01 RPMs (although I
donwloaded them). I am wondering, what about X-Libs and such packages... the only 4.01
packages on the Cooker mirrors are XFree86-server and the 3dfx driver. Why are all the
other packages still 3.3.6? I am of the understanding that all those packages have
been
changed since 3.3.6, and they'd all have to be upgraded... seeing as how XF85 4.0 is
working fine on my system with only XFree86-4.0-server installed, I see that's not
quite
the case. Does that oen package install ALL the XFree86 4.01 software (which the file
size certainly doesn't suggest), or what? I'm incredably confused... (and still pretty
determined to just install with tarball like I did with MDK 7.0...)
Sean Middleditch
