Re: What version of Xorg?
- From: phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx
- Date: 30 Jan 2008 02:13:51 GMT
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:53:37 -0000 Warren Block <wblock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
|> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:53:21 -0000 Warren Block <wblock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>|> My previous Slackware 11.0 has Xorg version 6.9.0. I can see from the x.org
|>|> web site the latest version is 7.3 and 7.4 is coming. I upgraded Slackware
|>|> to version 12.0 and it seems Xorg now reports version 1.3.0 instead of an
|>|> expected value in the 6.9 to 7.4 range. Anyone know WTF is that?
|>|
|>| It's the version of xorg-server. According to
|>|
|>| http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Releases/7.3
|>|
|>| xorg-server 1.4 goes with Xorg 7.3. So you have 7.2.
|>
|> So why does it not just say I have 7.2? Or why doesn't the web site say
|> that 1.4 is the current version?
|
| Because xorg isn't a single package with a version number any more, it's
| now a collection of modules, each with its own version number.
That's not what the main web page implies by giving only ONE version number
as being the current version.
| xorg-server 1.4 is just one component of Xorg 7.3. If you look farther
| down that web page, you'll see version numbers for other modules.
I do not see the version numbers for other modules on the main page. Nor
do I see them on the page linked as "Information about all releases is
available".
| As for finding out which overall version of Xorg you have, the easiest
| way may be the package manager.
The package file name has "1.3.0" in it. The web site does not have any
"1.3.0" there in any of the obvious places. If you can provide to me the
relationship of the new/development release, current release, and most
recent past release, AND all version numbers of modules/components thereof,
I could show you how I feel the web site should describe it.
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