Xorg 6.9 and 7.0 Released

Collins Richey crichey
Wed Dec 21 23:43:53 PST 2005


On 12/21/05, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> Git yer bits while they're hot. 6.9 and 7.0 have the same bits. The
> difference is that 6.9 uses the old gawdawful imake-based build system
> and 7.0 uses the new autotools-based build system. The new build system
> isn't quite as simple and configure && make && make install, but it's
> a lot closer than Imake will ever be.
>
> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/X11R70Release
>

Should be a minefield of fun. Even my bleeding edge Ubuntu Dapper
system hasn't gotten beyond 6.8.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan



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