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

James Lee james at opencsw.org
Wed Mar 24 18:55:35 CET 2010


On 23/03/10, 21:25:31, William Bonnet <william at wbonnet.net> wrote regarding
Re: [csw-maintainers] bad news on the CSW X11 front:

> 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

The OS is another question.


> This is a binary decision, but unfortunately this is the real situation.

It's not binary:

C. Provide X11R7 where needed.


This is also (as well as OpenGL) important if we care that the state is
broken during X11 updates.



James.


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