On 09/15/2011 02:41 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Jesse Barnes <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Pros: >> 1) easier to propagate API changes across drivers (just like Linux) >> 1a) thus easier to change ABI > > I suppose that's true. How often are we breaking the ABI though? How > often do we break the ABI and it doesn't get fixed in the drivers we > care about within a day or so? It's strange to sort of pretend that we > care about other drivers simply for the point of this argument.
This needs an extra sub-point: 1b) thus easier to git-bisect issues The problems enterprise distros may have with merging the drivers back into the server may be offset by this point. I used to work in a much more enterprise-like distro role before I began at Canonical, and I can attest that bisectable sources were a *big* win when a bug was reproducible and the sources could actually be bisected. The current X approach fails the latter condition. -- Chase _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
