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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Jake,

Am 23.03.2010 um 00:11 schrieb Jake Goerzen:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Dagobert Michelsen  
>> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The "good" news is, we can probably just keep the legacy gtk  
>>>> libraries
>>>> for those purposes.
>>>
>>> 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? :-}
>
> Phil was right to express reluctance to releasing X11 packages.
> IMHO we should roll back to before the CSW X11 packages recently
> released.  Then make that our stable release.  Then move on to Solaris
> 10.

Interesting move. You suggest "Let's do one last stable with Solaris 8
and then drop Solaris 8 and 9". Sounds also not too bad for me. And by
end of 2011 we may have a stable when Solaris 9 eosl ends ;-)


Best regards

   -- Dago