[csw-maintainers] bad news on the CSW X11 front

[William Bonnet]

Hi

First of all sorry for being offline a few days when this topic was hot...
>>> So we don't provide newer versions which allow 3d acceleration?
>>
>> well, the question is.. HOW do we do that?
>>
>> Dago, you are the person who provided our current gtk2 libs.
>>
>> Do you wish to go back,and redo it, and all its dependencies, to see
>> if it can be made to work on sun X11 after all? :-}
>
> I'm pretty sure it can. However, before doing so I would like to hear 
> some
> feedback from William what he thinks about it.

Well i don't really define myself as a X11 expert ;) but i have to say 
that i am one of the very first to have pushed for a X11 update. This 
choice was motivated by the fact that most of the recent applications ( 
like FF3 and newer 3.5 3.6, of TB 3, etc.) do not compile against older 
version of X11.

I do fully agree that pushing this out was maybe done too fast, and this 
is my fault. It also lights out that we should really set up non 
regression test, to prevent from this kind of situation.

Today my mind is really shared. I'm afraid that we have to face a 
situation which is choosing between two answers :

A. Stick to current X11 version, and accept to stick to old versions of 
software
B. Upgrade to latest X11, got up to date versions of software and 
definitely drop older version of Solaris OS

This is a binary decision, but unfortunately this is the real situation. 
I spent so many hours trying to make FF and TB working on solaris 8 that 
i should speak of days or weeks instead of hours...

IMHO, Solaris 10 is no longer the future. It is today. And soon it will 
be the past... I see no real reason to stick to older version if being 
compliant to this version are blocking us.

cheers
W.

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