This package updates about twice a month. The current version is 4 releases behind the latest stable release.
I am aware of that, however the vast majority of major changes between NEO releases only really apply to upstream binary packages. According to their release notes on GitHub, there have been a total of TWO major changes which are at all relevant to Gentoo: * 19.23 has added some Ice Lake and Comet Lake device IDs. According to the QA table from release notes support for the former architecture is at pre-release level ("major issues or regressions") and the latter is not officially supported at all yet; * 19.26 has implemented the clCreateImageWithPropertiesINTEL API. Between the aforementioned minimal added value of newer versions as of right now, the amount of time required by careful testing of NEO ebuilds the absence of reports of problems with versions currently available in the tree, I feel strongly tempted to stick with my original release schedule and only consider a version bump once 19.28 has been released.
That's fine, I understand completely. I just wanted to make sure there were some updates planned and that it wasn't a dead package... I really need NEO over beignet and didn't want to have to maintain my own ebuild. I wish x11-libs/libva-intel-media-driver was tested updated to 19.2.0 but at least there is a live ebuild. If you'd like to have someone test, a *9999 live ebuild would make it really easy to track regressions in newly-released versions. Either way, I feel this bug report is resolved. Thanks!
OK, closing then. Thanks for keeping an eye out, I'll think about a live ebuild.
