Re: What version of Xorg?
- From: Warren Block <wblock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:03:35 -0000
phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
The Slackware web page says it's version 12.0, but that doesn't imply
that it comes with Xorg 12.0.
| As for finding out which overall version of Xorg you have, the easiest
| way may be the package manager.
By "package manager", I mean any of the various programs used by Unix
systems to keep track of installed packages. Things like rpm or dpkg or
such. A package name will usually have a version number for the overall
package, like "xorg-7.3".
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.
You seem to have the impression that the Xorg project or website is
under my control, which is not the case.
It would be more productive to send your suggestions directly to the
Xorg people.
--
Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
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