re: CVS commit: xsrc/xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/netbsd/arm32vidc

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

   matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> writes:
   >    > xsrc should work on older releases as well - is this wise?
   >    
   >    How old is it required to go?  Is it required to support all kernel
   >    configurations?  I'd at least have to put in #ifdefs on
   >    __NetBSD_Version__, since we've removed several of the header files from
   >    -current.
   >
   > "all support releases".  that means back to 1.5, ideally.
   
   I'm not sure I entirely agree. There are branches/tags of xsrc for 1.5
   and 1.6 available. There is no reason people can't use those if they
   need to.


and if they want a newer X11?  we have always kept xsrc portable in
the past and there are good reasons to continue doing so.  for a
start, the upstream maintainers generally don't like patches that
break older operating system versions.



.mrg.