On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 13:14:51 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote: > Irregardless of which solution is chosen, if someone wanted to compile > a driver for an older server, they'd still have to checkout an older > version of the server code to compile against. Wouldn't they? What are > the chances a newer driver 1 year from now will still compile against > the older server source? > Typically they'd already have an X server (because it came with their distro, or because they are the distro), and just want an updated driver.
> Shouldn't a check like this be done at runtime? By making a decision > like this at build time, aren't we sentencing the compiled driver to > always only connect to either older or newer servers, but not both? > Being able to run the driver without recompiling on different X server versions only matters if you can't recompile your driver. Cheers, Julien _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
