[email protected] wrote:
> On 19/10/10 6:47 PM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Em Terça-feira 19 Outubro 2010, às 17:31:10,
> [email protected] escreveu:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> For MeeGo 1.2 the X.org 1.10 release is too late. We did not upgrade
>>> kernel and X in the beginning of the 1.2 cycle because we wanted to
>>> keep the codeline stable and working. We would not upgrade X in the
>>> end of the cycle either. That should be pretty clear common sense.
>>> 
>>> The only solution that I can see is to go with what Thiago proposed
>>> below. That is a solution which works now in Harmattan. The maintainer
>>> of the code is open as stated below.
>> 
>> Thanks for replying Sakari.
>> 
>> I'll check what we can do to reduce the maintenance burden of the patch.
>> 
>> This is a bit unfortunate for us since we do need to focus on XInput 2.1
>> anyway: other teams will not stop because of MeeGo. If they forge ahead
>> with the development, we need to be a part of it to ensure our needs
>> are met. 
> 
> Yes - I agree. It is unfortunate but many times the upstream schedules
> don't match with distro's.

that is certainly true, but can we really afford to have 1.2 without
"proper touch support" unless we use a dead-end fork that nobody at the
moment wants to spend time on?

this sounds like a pretty big issue to me.
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