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

[James Lee]

On 25/03/10, 14:01:43, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote regarding
Re: [csw-maintainers] bad news on the CSW X11 front:

> >> >> Well, this bring us to the same decision, discussed in another thread:
> >> >> to abandon Solaris 8 and, if it seems that the X11 version supplied
> >> >> with it is not satisfactory, abandon Solaris 9 also.
> >> >
> >> > Not so fast, this topic (OpenGL) affects Solaris 10 too.
> >
> >> It does not if we don't use our brew of X11.
> >
> > QED.  It's still not Solaris rev specific.

> Just to paraphrase you: "Not so fast" to declare QED... We have this
> issue because the Solaris 8, and maybe 9, are old, 20th century clunkers
> which does not provide up to date X11.

We have this issue with OpenGL because *all* of Solaris 8, 9 and 10's
hardware acceleration link to Solaris's X11.



James.