Decklin wonders why Qt has a SQL plugin. The answer is because it's a full development environment (think: MFC), not a GUI toolkit (think: GTK). Hope that helps.

(Last I checked, it also had a full XML parser, full string and array/list handling, socket handling, file handling, etc, etc, ad nauseum.)

Since all the cool kids are doing it:
daniels@ephemera:~/x/xorg/xserver% diff -urN xorg{,.xkb}/xkb | diffstat | tail -1
 27 files changed, 1437 insertions(+), 7439 deletions(-)

Hacking on XKB as recreation. Whoohoo.

(Oh yeah, and that removal of 6000 lines of code actually adds some really cool new features to the server, including some which make it significantly more complex -- XML parsing, i18n, you name it. How's that?)

PERHAPS BONG HITS WILL FIX MY KEYBOARD EXTENSION

A big word up to X11R7 being released. The benefits of modularisation are pretty well-documented: distributors can do security updates much more easily, as well as keep better track of upstream sources, users can build drivers easily if need be (and the drivers can get released promptly upon releases of new cards), etc, etc. But for me, the biggest win is that it's finally over: I've been working on it since Jan 2004, and the xlibs and xserver projects basically began in October 2003. I'm really glad that the release didn't, as suggested, get dragged into 2006.

People who deserve a great deal of thanks for this release include, but are absolutely not limited to, Kevin E. Martin, Adam Jackson and Alan Coopersmith as the release cabal, Søren Sandmann Pedersen as a modular partner in crime, Keith Packard and Jim Gettys who basically got modularisation moving, LinuxFund for funding Xizzle and Debrix (the genesis of the modularised X server), Jakub Stachowski and Kristian Høgsberg for work on Debrix when I got busy with other commitments (and krh for ongoing modularisation work). I'm sure there are others who I've forgotten here; if you feel you should be on this list, then sorry. The code contributions are too many to mention: Eric Anholt, Ben Herrenschmidt, Billy Biggs, Alan Hourihane, Zack Rusin, Dave Airlie, Aaron Platner, and a cast of thousands.

I've heard the other release parties are rocking along nicely; I plan to make Melbourne's pretty damn good. Cheers!

Dear Erich,
Alright then.

Erich asserts loudly (in bold face, to make sure you didn't miss it), that Microsoft doesn't deliver. I wonder if he thinks that Debian delivers, or?