[Xquartz-dev] server versions status

[Nathan]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to drop a line that this years XDC (X11 Developers Conference)
> is going quite well.  Each of the past 3 conferences has seen a good amount
> of drive in the tree that has benefitted us greatly, and this year has been
> no different.
>
> Today is actually a very special occasion.  For the first time, XQuartz is
> buildable and runnable from the master branch of the xserver git.  I've not
> done too much testing yet, but xterm and glxgears works.
>
> I've also solved the known 1.5->1.6 regressions, so 2.4.1_alpha2 will likely
> move to the 1.6 server branch.  We may actually move to 2.5.0 based on 1.7
> instead of shipping 2.4.1 depending on how things progress.  This may mean
> shipping a 2.5.0_alpha then abandoning it like we did with 2.4.0 before
> 2.3.3, but I hope 1.7.x doesn't prove as difficult as 1.5.x was.
>
> For those of you who haven't picked up on how the versioning numbers work,
> I'm trying to keep the second digit of the bundle version the same as the
> second digit of the upstream katamari release containing the same server
> version:
>
> X11R7.2 (the 1.2 and 1.3 server) -> bundle version 2.2.x
> X11R7.3 (the 1.4 server) -> bundle version 2.3.x
> X11R7.4 (the 1.5 and 1.6 servers) -> bundle version 2.4.x
> X11R7.5 (the 1.7 server) -> bundle version 2.5.x
>
> 2.1.x falls out of this versioning scheme, however, as it is essentially the
> "Official Leopard" version and contained 1.3.x and 1.4.x depending on the OS
> version.
>
>
>
> And for giggles, here's a screenshot of the first about window created from
> the master branch.
>
> --Jeremy

Sweet.  That's a fun bit of history to see.  It's nice to see so much
progress being made in this area.  I wish I had someone like you I
could turn to for my non-X11 apple radars that get ignored for years!

~ Nathan