[Xquartz-dev] 1.3.0-apple10 and pixman

[Ben Byer]

On Feb 11, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> As many of you know, we've been stuck on the 1.3 branch for a while  
> now while x.org has been working on 1.4 as their stable version.   
> There are a few technical reasons for this... mostly focused on bugs  
> having to do with the input side of things.
>
> I've looked into those bugs enough to know that they're not going to  
> be simple fixes, so I decided to try integrating just some of the  
> 1.4 changes into 1.3.  Specifically, I've just committed a series of  
> changes to git that bring the xorg-server-1.3-apple fb and render  
> code up to the same version in xorg-server-1.4-apple.  This code was  
> heavily refactored between 1.3 and 1.4 and much of it is now shared  
> with cairo in the pixman library.  Consequently, I expect that we  
> will see a big increase in stability with 1.3.0-apple10 over apple9,  
> but I haven't been able to give it a thorough testing yet.  While I  
> feel confident about the code, I'm not going to release it in a  
> package until it's been in use for a while.  I'm in the process of  
> uploading a binary to the downloads page and will send a note to x11- 
> users when it is done uploading.

Woohoo!

So, if we pull the pixman stuff from 1.4 back into 1.3, how much  
"other" (problematic) code is there in the diffs between 1.3.0-apple10  
and 1.4-apple?  Maybe we can shrink this even further...

-b