[Bug 532874] Review Request: xorg-x11-drv-wacom - Xorg X11 wacom input driver

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--- Comment #3 from Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com>  2009-11-08 20:03:11 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> It seems that Linux Wacom is still active (they released 0.8.4 very recently).
> Could you, please, add more details about the reasons, which led to the fork?,  

Ping (upstream linuxwacom maintainer) and I agreed that a fork is best for
getting a cleaner and more efficient X driver.
linuxwacom has become a hard-to maintain piece of code, with the X driver
trying to support everything from XFree86 3 up to X.Org Server 1.6. I have the
experience with X drivers, so the first thing we agreed on was to ditch pre X
server 1.6 support and go with 1.7 and later.

in terms of future development, linuxwacom and xf86-input-wacom will be
developed in parallel when it comes to new hardware support and general bug
fixes. linuxwacom will not see the updates to server 1.7, so any attempt of
supporting this in F12 will be a messy patch set (like it is now already).

note that Ping is a kernel developer responsible for new hardware support. The
X driver should not have any special hardware dependencies - that's what the
kernel is for. the forked driver is a major step towards that.

New specfile coming up in a minute.

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