XGL + Opengl + Multimedia possible ?

[Matt Price]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:28:22PM -0700, Henk Postma wrote:
> On 6/8/06, emisca <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I thought that Xgl and Aiglx were planned to eventually converge to a
> >> single project?
> >
> >Yes, look at Xorg 7.1 it includes some features from Xgl and from
> >AIGLX... it's already released, but we must wait a while because they
> >had to change the video driver model. We must wait for new drivers to
> >come....
> >Perhaps, i wish that it will be done before the next ubuntu release..
> 
> That's interesting, I did not know that. I was digging through the
> packages list for edgy
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> and it lists x11-common (which replaces xorg-common) as
> x11-common_7.0.0-0ubuntu45_i386.deb
> 
> So for the moment it seems edgy is at 7.0, which does not mean 7.1 is
> not being planned on, of course, but I couldn't find a list of version
> numbers for edgy. It's perhaps a little to early for that, what with
> dapper released a week ago. Let's give the devs some vacation :)

I imagine edgy looks a LOT like dapper right now, just as "testing" and
"stable" are identical in debian on the day of a release.  it will likely be
a while before 7.1 makes its way in to edgy, even if it is planned.

matt