On 09/16/2011 09:00 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:35:21AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: >> On 09/16/2011 06:25 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: >>> which - for now - at least rules out input driver merging. evdev and >>> synaptics could benefit from some shared code but the effort involved and >>> the potential loss of testers against old releases make me shy away from it >>> right now. >> >> I think there's still benefit in being able to target only one server >> release in each branch. The input modules have been 2-3 times larger at >> times because of dealing with older ABIs and servers. This makes things >> harder to maintain, and creates extra barriers to new development. > > Right, but we can easily do that without merging the drivers too and ditch > old ABIs whenever they become too cumbersome.
Fair enough. -- Chase _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
