From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 06:53:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55867106566B for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:53:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: from palm.hoeg.nl (mx0.hoeg.nl [IPv6:2001:7b8:613:100::211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A768FC19 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:53:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: by palm.hoeg.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7A0A71CC64; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:53:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:53:08 +0100 From: Ed Schouten To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20090225065308.GO19161@hoeg.nl> References: <49A4B9ED.5040705@telenix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TxukmIqg3MmZ0Kmh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49A4B9ED.5040705@telenix.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: x11 status X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:53:10 -0000 --TxukmIqg3MmZ0Kmh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Chuck, * Chuck Robey wrote: > I was wondering, I've lost track of the status of XFree86 on > FreeBSD.or really, at all. It looks like all of the Xfree86 servers > have been removed from ports. The XFree86 project has been dying ever since almost all the active development moved to the Xorg-project. Xorg has many new features that XFree86 doesn't have, like hardware compositing and improved device detection. > I was looking on the www.Xfree86.org website, and from what I see, it > apparently still is generating releases. Also, I downloaded the > latest cvs image from Xfree86, and it built FAR easier that xorg, far > faster, far simpler to configure ... Why should it matter how easy it is to build a piece of software? You can just run `make -C /usr/ports/x11/xorg install clean' or `pkg_add -r xorg'. > but when I look into FreeBSD-ports, the few ports which still have the > Xfree86 name, they're really cheating (talking about the drivers), > they seem to be really xorg drivers, just haven't had their names > fixed. This is a naming decision by the Xorg project. For some reason, all drivers are still called xf86-*. It's pretty hard to remove all references to XFree86 in hundreds of megabytes of source code. --=20 Ed Schouten WWW: http://80386.nl/ --TxukmIqg3MmZ0Kmh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmk6tQACgkQ52SDGA2eCwW92gCdEJE3nmRvIhYLRHJ2SPdCbZeN BJcAn0S1h4R1MbexOw+A/3U7SAbS2AED =EwUr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TxukmIqg3MmZ0Kmh--