On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:19:18AM -0800, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 12/07/2010 05:48 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > there's been a tremendous amount of work done on the build scripts to get > > xorg from master up and running. that, and git master is actually quite > > usable these days, I haven't seen any real showstoppers for ages. the > > situation has really improved. > > There's three main concerns I have. The first is that usability of > master really depends on when you start working. I started working after > a video driver ABI bump but before any drivers were updated, so I > couldn't run X server master at all. We're past the merge window though, > so this probably isn't a big deal anymore. > > Next, we want to encourage people to try out the X work, especially > developers who will use the new features. We need all the bug reports > and suggestions we can get at this stage, and providing a low barrier > for entry is key. > > Lastly, and this is partly of our own doing, I think there's a patch or > two that add Ubuntu-specific options to X that are required to have it > work in Ubuntu. I am hoping this will be less of an issue now that we > have two full-time Ubuntu X maintainers who can work to decrease the > patch delta, but I believe this was the second show stopper I faced when > trying to use X master source a few months ago. > > For the above reasons, mostly the second, I'll continue to maintain the > PPA for people to use. We need it internally for our other developers to > work on the gesture stack anyways.
Indeed! Please do - I wasn't trying to suggest otherwise. :) But if build.sh is broken, then that really really needs to be fixed. Cheers, Daniel
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